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Thursday 26th April, 2012
An 18 year old woman was stabbed to death at her home in Maracas, St. Joseph.
She has been identified as Nikita Ramischand, the daughter of prominent attorney Odai Ramischand.
Police say Mr. Ramischand and his son, Kiran, arrived at their Maracas Royal Road home around 8:30pm on Wednesday. The older Mr. Ramischand enquired from his wife the whereabouts of their daughter.
She reportedly said that Nikita was in her room, but after she failed to answer their calls, they called her mobile phone.
They heard the phone ringing at the western side of the home but it was not answered. Upon checking, they found her in a pool of blood with stab wounds to her neck and abdomen.
Officers from St. Joseph Police Station, led by Sergeant Samuel, visited the scene. Officers from the Arouca Homicide Division are continuing investigations.
Thursday 26th April, 2012
The 18 year old daughter of prominent attorney, Odai Ramischand, was found brutally murdered at her home in Maracas, St. Joseph. It's believed her killer may be someone she knew.
Mr. Ramischand recalled the last time he spoke to his daughter Nikita to C News.
At his residence, he said he arrived home around 8:30pm on Wednesday and asked his wife where Nikita was. They called out to her thinking she was in her bedroom, but got no reply. They then called her cell phone, but got no response.
Upon searching, Nikita's lifeless body was discovered outside the house. Her body bore several stab wounds to her neck and abdomen.
Mr. Ramischand said: "The housekeeper said she came down with her here, and saw her walking and she went back upstairs. The mother was waiting for her in the salon and apparently when she reached by where the vehicle is parked, someone grabbed her, because I could see trails of blood there, and they killed her at the back of the house. I reached home about 8:30 and when my wife told me that, it appeared she was already dead. But the gushing of the blood, it means that she would not have taken a long time to pass out. She seemed to have some serious stab wounds to her stomach, a lot of blood all on her knees."
Mr. Ramischand said it appeared that his daughter put up a struggle.
Nikita was pursuing accountancy at the School of Business and Computer Science.
Officers at the St. Joseph Police Station are continuing investigations.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communications, Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan, expressed condolences to the family during Thursday's Post Cabinet News Conference.
He stated: "It's a very sad situation and it is something that is very painful to lose your life at such an early age, in such circumstances."
To this end, Minister Rambachan said Government will continue to combat the crime situation.
brams112 wrote:Just saying is either a robbery gone sour,or a bad relationship.Sorry to put it that way but somebody had to have seen or heard something.
K74T wrote:News stated that they were looking for a Guyanese immigrant in connection with the incident, something to do with a rejected marriage proposal.
UML wrote:K74T wrote:News stated that they were looking for a Guyanese immigrant in connection with the incident, something to do with a rejected marriage proposal.
heard that as well on news
Sumana.00 wrote:UML wrote:K74T wrote:News stated that they were looking for a Guyanese immigrant in connection with the incident, something to do with a rejected marriage proposal.
heard that as well on news
That's her brother
RIP Terrible way to go condolences to the family
tr1ad wrote:UML, go easy
ADONI wrote:This is what may have cause a fire truck, water tanker truck for the fire truck, ambulance, unmarked police Tuscon pelting from the d PBR from by St Joesph old police station into St Joesph Maracas this evening around 6.
I hope they find d murderer
Spurned love ends in murder of teenager
The 18-year-old daughter of Port-of-Spain lawyer, Odai Ramischand, was stabbed to death Wednesday night.
Police said Nikita Ramischand was stabbed six times in the neck and abdomen. Her body was found by her parents and siblings at the family’s home, Maracas Royal Road, St Joseph, around 8.30 pm. Nikita was an accounts student at the School of Business and Computer Science (SBCS), Champs Fleurs. She also assisted her mother in the family’s beauty salon. Homicide detectives believe she was stabbed by a jilted lover. Up to late yesterday police were looking for a suspect, also 18.
Senior officers believed the suspect might attempt to leave the country as he had a ticket booked to Guyana. They also said her relationship with the suspect had been kept a secret. Her brother, Sid, who spoke in an interview at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, yesterday described his sister as a girl who had “a promising future and was brilliant.” He said she met someone who took her life because she spurned his love and an offer of marriage. Inspector Ramnaresh Seecharan, acting Insp Lawrence, Sgt Samuel, Cpl Jones and Modeste and PC Seville were among the officers who went to the scene.
Student killed in attack at home
Lawyer's daughter found dead in pool of blood with throat slashed
NIKITA RAMISCHAND'S dream of becoming an accountant ended tragically on Wednesday night.
Her body was found along a pathway to the back of her father's sprawling Maracas Valley, St Joseph, home with her throat slashed.
She was the daughter of attorney Odai Ramischand and the youngest of his six children.
Police investigators are currently looking for a 27-year-old Guyanese immigrant who they said could provide them with information in solving this case.
Investigators said the man was known to the teenage girl and reportedly proposed to her recently, but she turned him down.
Investigators said around 8.50 p.m. on Wednesday, 18-year-old Nikita, a second-year Accounts student of the School of Business and Computer Science (SBCS), was found by her 22-year-old brother.
They said earlier on Wednesday night, she had been left alone at home, and around 8.50 p.m. when her elder brother arrived at the house, he could not find her.
He tried calling her, but when she did not answer, he followed the sounds of her ringing phone, only to find his sister dead in a pool of blood to the back of the house.
She had three stab wounds to her chest, her throat had been slashed, her knees were skinned and she was found lying face up.
The Express was on the scene on Wednesday night, and attempts to speak to the family proved futile. They said they were too distraught to speak at that time.
On Thursday morning, four of Ramischand's relatives were at the Forensic Science Centre in St James.
One of her female relatives, who did not want to be named, described her as a nice person who never left the family house alone but would always go out with her brothers and sisters. She did not want to say anything else.
Calls to two of Odai Ramischand's numbers proved futile as they had been switched off.
In the meantime, outpourings of support towards the teenager's family from her friends appeared on a special account set up by her relatives on the social networking site Facebook.
The page, named "Rest in Peace Nikita Ramischand", showed messages of support and shock over her death.
Homicide Bureau officers are continuing investigations.
A FAMILY'S NIGHTMARE
Police yesterday launched a manhunt for a 25-year-old Guyanese construction worker who is being sought in connection with the murder of Nikita Ramischand, the 18-year-old daughter of prominent attorney, Odai Ramischand.
Nikita’s throat was slit and she was stabbed several times in the abdomen, after being attacked near her mother’s salon in Maracas on Wednesday night.
Investigators believe the suspect was obsessed with Nikita who rejected his marriage proposal a few weeks ago.
“This is definitely a murder which we will be able to solve since we know who killed Nikita and we know who we are searching for,” Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson told Newsday. He said investigators expect to detain the suspect, whose last known address was Felicity in Central Trinidad.
Nikita, a second-year ACCA student of the School of Business and Computer Sciences (SBCS), worked at Casa de Belize, a salon her mother Shariza operated next to the family home at LP 46 Maracas Royal Road, Maracas, St Joseph.
Nikita was supposed to attend to a client at the salon at about 7 pm on Wednesday. Police believe that while walking to the salon, Nikita was ambushed by the suspect who dragged her behind the premises where he slit her throat and stabbed her in her abdomen.
Shariza told police that she did not hear any screams or any strange noises, but when Nikita failed to arrive at the salon she became suspicious and began calling her cellphone. When the calls went unanswered, Shariza, her husband, Odai, their eldest son Sid and another brother and sisters began searching for Nikita.
They found Nikita’s bloodied body behind the salon at about 8 pm.
Police believe the killer scaled a ten foot razor-edged wire fence, located on the northern side of the Ramischand family home, where he hid and waited for Nikita.
Homicide officers were called in as well as District Medical Officer Dr Richards who instructed that Nikita’s body be taken to the Forensic Science Centre, St James for an autopsy which took place yesterday.
Before the autopsy, Shariza identified her daughter’s body after which the distraught woman was led away by weeping relatives. The autopsy, performed by pathologist Dr Eastlyn McDonald-Burris, revealed that Nikita bled to death after her throat was slit. She also received six stab wounds to the abdomen.
Police believe the murder weapon was a kitchen knife which has not yet been found.
Sid, Nikita’s eldest brother, yesterday said Nikita was considered “the baby” of the family and lived a sheltered life. He said three months ago, his father hired construction workers to work on the property where they lived and it was there that Nikita met the suspect. He said the two spoke frequently on the phone and when the suspect asked Nikita to get married a few weeks ago, she refused.
Sid said the suspect began making threatening phone calls to Nikita. Three weeks ago, the suspect scaled the razor-wire fence, entered the property and began threatening his sister.
It was only when Nikita said she would call the police that the suspect left. Sid added that his sister started a new relationship a few weeks ago and believes that this may have angered the suspect. He believes Nikita was being stalked.
He called on the police to find her killer.
“My sister was such a brilliant student who passed her exams with flying colours and we know she had a bright future ahead of her. But now that she has been snatched away from us, it seems like a bad nightmare but we are all trying to deal with this and we know that our love for each other will pull us through,” Sid said.
He said he was keeping a level head to provide emotional support for his family.
“We will never get over this. There are five of us now but there will always be six since Nikita will always be a part of our family forever,” he said.Yesterday, friends of the dead student set up an open group page on the social networking site, Facebook in which they expressed their sorrow.
By 2 pm, the Facebook page had more than 100 messages from concerned friends, relatives and acquaintances.
Some of them read as follows:
“I keep seeing her smile, hearing the sound of her laughter” ;
“All those silly times with you. I can’t believe this. Gone too soon! You’ll always be remembered”;
“Nikita...you were an amazing person while I knew you...may your soul RIP And may God give your family the strength to overcome this”;
“I still don’t know what to say......We were not close friends but this is hurting like if we were”; “I really can’t believe this has happened ....RIP nikita ...u were a great buddy to sit next to 4 part of form 3”;
“A sister to all of us.....a friend to many..a kind heart and a subtle smile we will all miss so dearly,” were some of the messages.
Police officers returned to the murder scene yesterday and searched for clues. Nikita’s father, Odai, remained indoors. Members of the legal fraternity expressed their condolences to Odai and his family and senior police officers pledged to do everything to bring the killer to justice.
Odai, who was born in Guyana, has been practicing law in Trinidad for decades.
He represented convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan who was extradited to the United States on drug charges by former Attorney General John Jeremie. He also represented the Hindu Credit Union in 2008 and the former wife of former Guyanese President Bharat Jagdeo who filed a lawsuit against a private medical institution after she complained about discrepancies in bills submitted to a charity she chairs.
In 2007, three men confessed to Odai that they were part of a gang who killed Valsayn businesswoman Vindra Naipaul, this led to several searches of shallow graves in central Trinidad.
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