Bath Settlement family relives girl’s death after suspect linked to second rape, murder

The recent rape and murder of a Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice girl has reopened old wounds for a family that experienced a similar tragedy almost four years earlier.

Rajesh Panday, 42, and Claudette David, 39, were devastated when the young man who was tried for the 2008 rape and murder of their daughter, 12-year-old Kavita “Vinesha” Panday of Block ‘D’ Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice,  was freed by the court.

Their grief and anger are still fresh,