Guyanese national Deokaran Sewkaran, 35, who was robbed, stabbed and set on fire by thieves on November 29 in Waterloo succumbed to his injuries on Saturday at the San Fernando General Hospital.
According to a police report, at about 4.30 am Sewkaran, initially from New Amsterdam, Guyana, was at Down Home bar, Waterloo Road, Carapichaima, liming when he went to the washroom. It is alleged that he was accosted by two men and robbed. The men then allegedly stabbed Sewkaran twice in the abdomen. He ran out of the bar and was pursued by his attackers.
The men then doused Sewkaran with a flammable substance and lit him on fire.
He was assisted by patrons of the bar and taken to the Couva Hospital where he was transferred to the San Fernando General Hospital and warded in a critical condition since then.
On Saturday at about 7 pm, Sewkaran, who received 90 per cent burns to his body, succumbed to his injuries.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday, his brother, Dhanraj, 20, said he and his brother, who is fondly called Sharma, came to Trinidad three months ago on vacation and had plans to return to Guyana shortly.
“He has two children. His wife is in the country now and my mother is planning to come to Trinidad to see what we can do now. How we can make the money to take his body back home or what we will do,” Dhanraj said.
Dhanraj, who described his elder brother as a quiet and good boy, questioned why he had to die that way.
“We came together and should have been going back home together. I want justice for my brother and hope that I get this from the police officers,” Dhanraj said.
Officers at the Freeport Police Station is now treating Sewkaran’s death as a murder and are continuing investigations into the incident.