Prisoner found dead in Blairmont lock-ups

Balkissoon Daichan

Balkissoon ‘Boi’ Daichan, 42, a carpenter of Rosignol, West Bank Berbice, was found hanging in a cell at the Blairmont Police Station on Thursday evening, hours after he was arrested for threatening his wife.

The newly-widowed Roshini ‘Geeta’ Narine, 40, told Stabroek News that she made the report to the police around 4:30 pm and they arrived and took Daichan away. Around 10 pm the same day, she received a call that he had hanged himself in the lock-ups.

Narine fainted. She said her sisters visited the station about one hour later but by then the body was already