Father of 3 stabbed to death at home

ANGUISHED screams broke the stillness of a sleepy rural community in Rochard Road, Barrackpore, South Trinidad, as a woman stood helplessly in the porch of her home while her husband was stabbed repeatedly and killed on their bed around midnight on Monday. By the time neighours ran to the house to see why housewife Rajwati Sammy was screaming, her husband Ramdial Sammy, 49, lay dead on the matrimonial bed, his body bathed in blood from the ten stab wounds to his head, neck, chest and hands. Neighbours told police they saw a white car speed away from Sammy’s house shortly after his wife started screaming. Up to late yesterday, police sources told Newsday they had no motive for the brutal killing, save for the fact that Sammy, who was a supervisor at Jokhan’s General Contractors, had dismissed several labourers sometime ago. One villager, awakened by Rajwati’s screams, related the incident to Newsday this way: “I saw the wife in the porch of the house shouting for somebody to call the ambulance.

“I went upstairs and see him (Sammy) covered in blood from head to waist and lying on the bed as if dead. He was bareback and lying on his side,” related the villager, who asked not to be identified. The villager said Rajwati, through sobs, said a man came into the bedroom and asked, ‘Where the boss? Ah come for the boss’.” “She (Rajwati) replied ‘he here,’ to which the intruder said, ‘Come out of the room or I will kill you’,” the neighbour continued. Police sources told Newsday a frightened Rajwati grabbed her nephew, who was in another room and ran to the porch where she (Rajwati) started screaming for help. By this time, Ramdial Sammy was also screaming as he was stabbed repeatedly by the intruder who, after committing murder, ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and escaped.

When police revisited the scene for follow-up investigations, a dazed Rajwati lay in the arms of female relatives and cried as other family members tried to calm her. Rajwati’s brother Bissessar Arjoon said his brother-in-law had no enemies and he (Arjoon) was in the dark as to why someone would want to kill Sammy. Arjoon said Sammy was married to his sister for almost 20 years and he had another child (a daughter) from a previous relationship. Sammy’s boss Jagdesh Jokhan told Newsday that Sammy had a good relationship with his co-workers. Jokhan added that Sammy was a very disciplined and honest worker. Visiting the scene were ASP Joseph Nathaniel, Insp Whittaker, acting Insp Raffick Ali and Cpls Roopnarine and Noel. Barrackpore police and Homicide Bureau (South) detectives are continuing investigations.