Forty-seven-year-old Sattie Veersammy is thankful that the Police managed to capture her son who is accused of killing his reputed wife and stuffing her body inside a barrel.
Suraj Veersammy known as ‘Radesh’, a labourer of Hampshire Village was found by the Police Sunday morning under the Canje Bridge, in Sheet Anchor, East Canje.
His reputed wife is said to be a 24-year-old Venezuelan national whose battered body was found stuffed inside a blue barrel that was found in a trench at R and S Street, Belvedere, East Berbice Corentyne on April 11. There was also a sheet wrapped around her neck.
Mrs Veersammy told the News Room Sunday that her son has always been “troubled”; he spent time in jail for stealing from her and threatening to hurt her.
“Me glad them Police catch [him], it nah mek since he alive. He bad, them should lock he away and throw away the keys,” Mrs Veersammy said.
According to her, since, the young Veersammy who is a habitual smoker of illegal substances, has been in and out of prison, however shortly after his release in November 2019, he introduced the young Venezuelan woman to his family.
Mrs Veersammy only knew her as “Vanessa”; she said the couple has been renting the house in Hampshire village for the past five months.
The mother described ‘Vanessa’ as “beautiful and kind.”
Prior to moving in with ‘Radesh’, the young man lived with her grandmother, Mrs Veersammy said.
“Me nah care for he but she is just like [my] daughter. She is a very good person, quiet and nice. She don’t talk if you don’t talk to her but he bring her and if it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t have talk to him or tolerate him by me.
“The girl seem to had a very hard life and I feel for her so whatever little I could help with [I] tried. If she come and sit here she don’t talk…
“When she talk her story about how she grow up, it hurt me, so I does try to make her comfortable and give them whatever [I] can just for her sake. Everyone like she. She never ask you for things…she has good manners.”
According to Mrs Veersammy, she and her son shared a difficult relationship and at one point, she “disowned” him because of his lifestyle but she decided to fix their relationship for “the sake of Vanessa.”
The last time she saw her son was on Monday, April 6 when he asked her for two coconuts and $500 to purchase chicken.
The Police visited her house after the body was found.
Mrs Veersammy hopes her son tells the truth and wants him to face the full brunt of the law.
The young Veersammy is believed to have killed the young woman on April 9; it was the last day her neighbours saw her alive in a long green and white stripe dress.
At around midday the same day, the neighour heard the couple arguing and then there was a sudden quietness.
The body appears to fit the description of Veersammy’s wife and it was found in a green and white dress.
Neighbours had indicated to the Police that the couple had two blue barrels in their yard but when Police showed up, only one was found.
The discovery of the partially decomposed body was made on April 11 by Harennauth Yodan, 53, a cane harvester who lives at the property opposite of where the body was found.
