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Friday, May 2, 2025

Friend kills friend in row over Rowley

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An al­co­hol-fu­elled dis­pute re­port­ed­ly over pol­i­tics turned dead­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing when a man was at­tacked and stabbed twice with a gar­den fork al­leged­ly by his best friend in Preysal Vil­lage, Cou­va.

Hary­nar­ine Ban­sie, 45, nick­named Bro­co, of Low­er Cou­va Road, Presyal Vil­lage, died in the liv­ing room of his friend's home af­ter be­ing stabbed in the face and neck.

The 61-year-old sus­pect, a Cepep work­er, has been ar­rest­ed and is be­ing held at the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion.

Po­lice in­quiries re­vealed that the two men who were drink­ing pun­cheon at the sus­pect's home re­port­ed­ly had a heat­ed ar­gu­ment over Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley whom the sus­pect re­ferred to in a racial­ly deroga­to­ry man­ner. The sus­pect then be­came en­raged and al­leged­ly stabbed Ban­sie in the head and neck.

Po­lice re­ceived a re­port about the in­ci­dent around 2 am by Vashtie Ramkissoon, 51, who was lim­ing and drink­ing pun­cheon with the men at Sesame Street, San­ta Clara Road.

Ramkissoon, ac­cord­ing to the re­port, told po­lice some­time af­ter 8 pm the sus­pect and Ban­sie, who are both her friends, be­gan ar­gu­ing when the sus­pect al­leged­ly stabbed Ban­sie in the neck and head with the gar­den fork. She said she ran out of the house and called the po­lice. Po­lice seized the gar­den fork.

At her home yes­ter­day, Ramkissoon who was in an emo­tion­al state did not want to say what the ar­gu­ment was about. "Is rum talk," she said.

She de­nied al­le­ga­tions that she and Ban­sie were in a re­la­tion­ship.

She said the sus­pect and Ban­sie were best friends. "He (de­ceased) was a nice, lov­ing fel­lah. He was nice and hon­est."

Ramkissoon said she in­ter­vened and tried to stop them ar­gu­ing, but they would not lis­ten to her.

She said she left them and took a show­er. "When I come back I see him with a fork over Bro­co. I had to run for my life." She said she called 999 about a hun­dred times be­fore she got a re­sponse.

At Ban­sie's home where he used to live with his par­ents, ages 68 and 70, his moth­er was cry­ing.

"He was the ap­ple of her eye, her eye­ball," said his younger sis­ter Ni­ta Nanan.

She said they had warned her broth­er many times about lim­ing with the sus­pect but he would say they were his "best friends."

Nanan ad­mit­ted her broth­er had a drink­ing prob­lem, but she said he was not vi­o­lent.

"He would nev­er pick a fight. He would walk straight home and sleep," she said adding that her broth­er did not de­serve to die.

She said her broth­er helped their moth­er clean and pre­pare for Di­vali, but they will not be hav­ing any cel­e­bra­tions.

"We prepar­ing for a wake now," she said. Ban­sie was the third of eight chil­dren and would have cel­e­brat­ed his birth­day on No­vem­ber 18.

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be per­formed to­mor­row at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre. In­ves­ti­ga­tors will then seek in­struc­tions from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions on whether to charge the sus­pect.


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