MAN HELD AGAIN IN RAMNATH MURDER

A man who was questioned by police for two days, over the murder of trainee teacher Debbie Ann Ramnath, was again arrested over the weekend after investigators received new information on the case. Police sources told Newsday that detectives went to the home of the man on Sunday and took him into custody. Up to yesterday he was being questioned by officers at San Fernando CID. The man had been detained by police last Tuesday, a day after Ramnath’s body was found at the side of a road near the  Corinth Teachers Training College, which she attended. The woman had been beaten on the head and strangled. The suspect was released on Thursday evening. Ramnath, who was supposed to have written her final exams last week for her teacher’s diploma, had been married to Ryan Sagar, a fire fighter attached to the Chaguanas Fire Service, just over a year and lived in a downstairs apartment at her in-laws’ home in Diamond Village, San Fernando.  Just six months ago, Ramnath, a former assistant teacher at the Fanny Village Government School, gave birth to a baby girl at the San Fernando General Hospital, but the infant only lived for ten days. 

Ramnath’s husband told police that around 9 pm on June 15, she left home in her blue Sentra B13 to go to a nearby Quick Shoppe and then to her mother’s home where she wanted to study for her exams. However, around 6 am on Monday, her body was discovered sprawled at the entrance of her school. A blue bandana, which police believe had been used to strangle her, was tied around her neck. Investigators have ruled out robbery, as the woman’s jewelry was found in her possession and her car was discovered intact on Tuesday at the car park of the Gulf City Shopping Complex.