Trinidad Express
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009
Boodanie Roopchand, mother of Mahadeo Roopchand, who died after ingesting a deadly substance, in a pensive mood at her Barrackpore home yesterday. -Photo: DAVE PERSAD
Four men died after eating a meal on Sunday night at a Barrackpore house.
Winston Seelal, 55, Mahadeo Roopchand, 40, and Nazim Mohammed, 40, were dead before the Emergency Medical Services ambulance arrived. Ramdeo Jugmohan, a grandfather of two, died while undergoing treatment at the San Fernando General Hospital.
Police said yesterday the men spent the evening cooking a meal and drinking home-made wine at Seelal’s small wooden shack at Rampersad Trace, off Rochard Douglas Road, Barrackpore.
But several hours later neighbours saw them lying on the grass outside the house.
Police searched the house, but found no evidence of poison. Nevertheless, they took away four glasses and samples of water from a steel barrel for forensic testing. A bottle containing a chemical substance was also seized.
Seelal lived alone in the wood and galvanise house. Mohammed, his childhood friend, lived a short distance away. Mohammed’s common-law wife walked out of the marital home with their two children two days ago, police said.
The bodies were removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James, but up to late yesterday the autopsies had not yet been performed.
Homicide detectives are continuing investigations.
Two years ago, a man died and two fell violently ill, after they unknowingly drank poison during a Hindu prayer service at Ramsubad Trace, Rochard Road, Penal
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