Man found hanging was murdered

AN AUTOSPY performed yesterday on the body of the father of one who on Sunday was found hanging from a shed at the back of his Penal home, revealed the man was murdered. As such, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Geoffrey Henderson, yesterday ordered South-Western Division police to formally charge two men for the murder of Sunil Ganga, 26. The two men, ages 20 and 22, and from Scotts Road, Penal, were charged late yesterday evening by Cpl Flanders of Penal CID, for Ganga’s murder, and will appear before a Siparia Magistrate this morning to face the charges. Ganga, a gardener, of Snail Trace, Scotts Road, Penal, was discovered hanging in a shed at the back of his home by his wife, Roseanne Ganga, 23, mere hours after he had an altercation with two men at his home. When Newsday visited Ganga’s humble home yesterday, relatives and friends were gathered on the roadside still trying to come to terms with Ganga’s death. His wife, Roseanne, who assisted her husband in the garden, said she and her husband were frequently threatened by the suspects because they (the suspects) were envious of them. “They (the suspects) say we building up too fast. They were jealous of us,” the grieving woman said. Roseanne said two weeks ago the suspects dealt her husband several blows which left him hospitalised. She said she had made several reports to the police but the men continued harasssing them.                                                                           

Recalling the events leading up to her husband’s death, she said on Saturday she and her husband had gone to the Penal market to sell barbadine, caraille, avocadoes, pimentos and peppers. She said when they returned home around 12.30 pm, she cooked lunch, and sometime later, her father-in-law Chandra Ganga, came over and they started to drink. Some hours later, Roseanne said she, her husband and their seven-year-old son Sanjay, went across to her father-in-law’s residence, some 200 feet away, where they continued drinking. Around 10. 50 pm, Roseanne said she and her husband left their son at her in-laws, and returned home. She said she went inside her house, leaving her husband outside. “When he drink he is talk to he self. But I hear him say ‘who is that’ and then I hear he say ‘(name call) what yuh doing meh.’ Then he shout ‘Roseanne run’,” she recalled. Too frightened to run out of the house, she peeped through the  window and saw two men holding her husband. She said she heard a bottle break and she heard as though the men were dragging her husband to the back of the house. Minutes after she heard noises by the shed and then everything was quiet. After a few minutes she started hearing people moving about. Hours after, around 4 am, when she was sure that the men were gone, Roseanne said she came out of the house and found her husband hanging in the shed. She ran to her in-laws’ house and they contacted the police. Penal CID is continuing investigations. Roseanne said she felt safer now that the two men had been caught by the police.