Patricia Sanasie execution…Daughter positively IDs mother’s killer
Three months after she was gunned down in front of her home, investigators are now preparing to
Patricia Sanasie
charge a man who they are convinced was the killer of business woman Patricia Sanasie. Kaieteur News understands that on Friday police detained a man, Richard Stanton called ‘Ritchie’, who they say is the prime suspect in the woman’s murder that occurred in January this year. The man has since been positively identified by the woman’s daughter, who flew into Guyana yesterday morning for that purpose before flying back to the United States of America a few hours later. The man was detained shortly after the killing but was released after 72 hours when no one came forward to identify him. At that time, Sanasie’s daughter who was with her in the car when she was murdered had left the country, citing safety concerns. However, this newspaper understands that investigators arranged for the daughter to return briefly to Guyana to identify the suspect who was being constantly monitored. Police had reviewed a number of surveillance tapes but were unable to come up with anything substantial that could have pointed them to the killer initially. It is not too clear how investigators got on to Stanton but a source revealed that his arrest was based on information received by the police. The suspect has reportedly denied killing Mrs. Sanasie but according to a source close to the investigation, he is expected to be taken before a magistrate tomorrow. On January 12th gunmen clad in black executed the 43 year -old woman who was the wife of auto parts dealer, Deokaran Sanasie, called Monkey Ram outside her Lot 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara home. Investigators believe that the killing was a paid hit. The shooting occurred almost a year after her husband survived a similar attempt on his life. Sanasie and her husband, owner of Ram’s Auto Sales, had been embroiled in a prolonged dispute, after gunmen shot him outside a Fourth Street, Alberttown business on February 14, 2014. The husband had accused his spouse of hiring the gunmen to execute him. The couple had been separated. Sanasie had been expressing fear for her safety, laying blame on her husband who fled to the United States of America since late last year and has not set foot back in Guyana. Although the dead woman’s relatives believe that her husband was responsible for her death, investigators have so far been unable to link him to the paid killer.