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‘Friend’ lured missing woman
By NALINEE SEELAL Tuesday, June 24 2008
Police continued the search yesterday for two young women, Avita Bissoondath and her friend Shanice Ramcharan who went missing on Saturday.
Officers of the Anti Kidnapping Unit (AKU) said the investigation has shifted and they are looking for a friend of Bissoondath, 21, who they suspect may have lured her away from her home.
On Saturday, at about 3 pm, Bissoondath left her home at Lange Park, Chaguanas telling relatives that she was going to Price Plaza, Chaguanas to meet Ramcharan. When she failed to return home, relatives called her cell- phone and got no reply. She was last seen driving her uncle’s Nissan Almera.
On Saturday night, the burnt-out Almera was found in the Tappana Forest, Valencia by villagers and the car was towed to the Valencia Police Post.
Investigators confirmed that Bissoondath, the daughter of attorney Darrin Bissoondath, and Ramcharan attended St Augustine Community College, St Augustine. The two were good friends. Bissoondath’s relatives yesterday said they were too traumatised to speak about her disappearance. Bissoondath and Ramcharan had listings as friends on the social networking website Facebook. Bissoondath has a listing on bebo, a social media network and Ramcharan is listed on Netlog, which has more than 30 million users. The police however do not think there is any internet link to the case.
However, Ramcharan’s mother Maria yesterday told Newsday that her daughter spoke with her on Sunday and did not give any indication that she was in danger and sounded as if she was alright. She said Ramcharan, who is also 21, did not speak about Bissoondath.
Maria said her daughter moved out of her home at Caura last November after her boyfriend Rooplal Samlal, 24, was shot dead while they were asleep.
At about 9.30 pm, on November 13, 2007, three masked men stormed into the house and planassed Ramcharan and Samlal. One of the men then shot Samlal in the head. Samlal’s killers also set fire to a Nissan Sentra B12 car that was parked in the yard. Yesterday, the charred shell of car remained in the same spot on which it was burnt last year.
Maria described her daughter as being “a little on the wild sideâ€