Berbice: Alliance For Change (AFC) Councillor Abel Seetaram was found guilty of felonious wounding and the Court is now expected to hand down a sentence on June 13 pending a probation report.
Following the guilty verdict on Wednesday by Magistrate Rhondel Weaver at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court defence counsel Horatio Edmonson in a plea of mitigation asked the Court to exercise mercy and leniency, since the offence carried a maximum sentence of four years’ imprisonment.
The case stemmed from a drunken brawl on January 21, 2018 when Seetaram, 36, of Lot 121 B Woodley Park Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB), injured his cousin Netram Rabindranauth.
The prosecution had contended that Seetaram feloniously wounded Rabindranauth, 54, a vendor of Lot 64 ‘A’ Woodley Park Village. Seetaram was initially released on $100,000 bail.
The AFC Councillor was arrested after he was said to have used a piece of wood to injure Rabindranauth during an altercation after a drinking spree.
Back in January, the victim had intervened in an argument and scramble between Seetaram’s son and his son in order to make peace and part them.
Rabindranauth recalled that it was at this point that Seetaram arrived on the scene and dealt him several blows with the piece of wood. Both men took their sons to the Police Station and made reports after which the young men were held for questioning and subsequently released.
Rabindranauth also reported that he had to be taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital after he sustained a broken jaw, fractured nose, and suffered internal bleeding which also saw him being transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
At the scene of the confrontation, Seetaram, who was reportedly intoxicated, was heard shouting and telling persons who had gathered that no one could do him anything, since he knows “Khemraj” and is a “big boy in the Government”.
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