BREAKING: Maid’s son admits to murdering missing Canadian; Burnt remains found
DEAD CANADIAN: 23-year-old Nicholas Jaipaul
The charred remains, suspected to be those of missing Canadian national 23-year-old Nicholas Jaipaul, were found this morning at Moleson Creek, Corentyne, Berbice.
Police were taken to the location by a son of the maid who police were initially looking for, but who fled to Georgetown and was found hiding in Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
BIG Smith News Watch has learnt that the woman’s son told detectives that he killed the young man and burnt his body at the location. When the police arrived there, they found evidence of charred human remains, and have since been actively combing the crime scene for more clues and evidence.
According to the young man, someone paid him to kill the Canadian citizen. He has not yet told detectives who the person is, that wanted the young man dead.
The suspect’s mother, who was the maid to the home of the Canadian resident, along with another one of his siblings, were in police custody since two days ago. This morning the police picked up an additional four persons who they hope will assist in their investigations.
Nicholas Jaipaul, an overseas-based Guyanese went missing four days ago from his Lot 42 Section ‘A’ #69 Village, Corentyne home, and family members were alleging that he may have been kidnapped sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning.
Jaipaul, a Canadian citizen, arrived in Guyana earlier this year on vacation, however, due to COVID-19 and the temporary border restrictions that were put in place across all ports of entry after Guyana confirmed its first case in March, Jaipaul was unable to return home to Canada, and as a result, he had been staying with his 86-year-old grandfather on the Corentyne.
BIG Smith News Watch was informed of the missing person report and contacted the family.
During an interview with Ramkissoon Jaipaul, the young man’s grandfather, he had said he last saw his grandson on Sunday evening, just before heading to bed.
“He gave me my medications and we had dinner and went upstairs around 5pm. We sat in the living room and had a chat, but shortly after we had a blackout. I got up and I lit two lamps; I gave him one to take in his room and I took one and went to bed, and I can’t say what happened after that,” the elderly man recounted.
He had said that it was unclear whether his grandson left the house after he would have ventured to bed, but also, all of the young man’s personal belongings were left untouched in the room, and he never left the house without informing him either.
“I highly doubt that he would leave the house in the night because he is not from Guyana, so he doesn’t have any friends to go out with. Even if he is going upstairs, he would say, ‘Grandpa I’m going upstairs to relax a bit.'”
Jaipaul told this publication that he woke up around 5 am on Monday, to the phone ringing.
“When I answered the phone, the person on the other end asked, ‘where are you and where is your grandson?’, so I told them I’m at home and my grandson is sleeping. The person said ‘no, he is not sleeping, go and check, I have him with me.’”
Unable to rush up the stairs, the elderly man made calls to his maids, who came over and went upstairs to check on Nicholas, but quickly returned to inform him that the young man’s room was empty and he was nowhere upstairs.
He had further stated that there was no evidence of forced entry into Nicholas’ room, and the only thing that was missing was his cellular phone. All documents and personal items from his bag were still intact.
