Widow Ragnauth calls cops at her home ‘evil’
Guyana Chronicle
August 1, 2002

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SIMI Ragnauth, whose reputed husband, Shaka Blair was shot dead by Police in their Buxton home last April 6, said yesterday that the cops who forced their way into their house that morning were “evil persons”.

Answering questions from attorney-at-law Mr. Basil Williams, one of the lawyers looking into her interest, she said, when asked: “I believed them to be evil”.

The widow also said the time of the Police entry was not appropriate and she was not aware of any published wanted bulletins for her husband.

According to her, no Police ranks from Cove and John, Beterverwagting, Sparendaam or Vigilance, which is the closest station to Buxton, ever visited them and request that Blair report to any of them.

Neither was any summons ever directed to Blair, Ragnauth told Coroner Brassington Reynolds and the three-member jury inquiring into his death at Sparendaam Court, also on East Coast Demerara.

The woman said, just about a week before Blair was killed, he had attended Vigilance Magistrate’s Court in connection with a matter involving his brother, as well.

Ragnauth said, when the policemen entered their bedroom that fatal morning, they did not request her to stay with them.

She said the ‘Black Clothes’ Police caused her to feel scared when she saw them and she had learnt about them on television.

The inquest continues on Tuesday, with Ragnauth still on the witness stand.