Police arrest second suspect in alcoholic man’s murder

Prietam Manickram

A second suspect has been arrested as the police continue their investigation into the murder of 46-year-old Prietam Manickram, the alcoholic who was found dead in an abandoned house at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara last Monday.

Sunday Stabroek was reliably informed that the suspect was arrested sometime between Thursday and Friday. The first suspect was detained on Wednesday.

The lifeless body of Manickram, called ‘Vishnu” and “Shahrukh,’ a father of three, was discovered a relative who went to check on him around 1.40 am last Monday by. At the time, he was lying in the bottom flat of the abandoned house. There were no visible marks of violence but an autopsy revealed that Manickram died as a result of manual strangulation