Killer promised airline ticket to murder carpenter

Georgetown: The wife of slain Herstelling carpenter Nathan Persaud Friday night confessed to planning his murder and subsequently hiring the killer whom was promised a plane ticket as payment for the dastardly act.
According to reports, the woman gave investigators a detailed account of how she contracted the killer, who is still at large, to eliminate her husband with whom she was having a bitter dispute over a property at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
The property in question is a two-storey house that once housed a business on the bottom flat. Persaud had moved to his mother’s house in Herstelling with his three sons. It was there that he met his death even before the court matter could have been completed.
The Crime Chief said that while the woman and another relative are in police custody, the hunt is still on for the actual killer.
Confessing to investigators, the woman claimed that she had felt threatened after Persaud expressed confidence that the court matter would end in his favour and had told her that when it was over, she will have to live on the road.
Investigators were soon to learn that it was the woman herself who carefully designed a scheme to get rid of her husband. The woman confessed that she met the killer about two weeks ago through her niece who is also in police custody.
According to reports, the killer who has a girlfriend residing in one of the islands of the Caribbean, was eager to travel there to surprise her but did not have the finances.
This, he confided to the woman’s niece, who is also a friend of his girlfriend. So when Persaud’s wife found out about the man’s eagerness to travel to the Caribbean she used the opportunity to offer him assistance to purchase his airline ticket– if he would do her a favour. That favour was to kill her husband.
She however advised the killer to wait until Persaud’s sons had left the house before attempting the task. It is believed that Persaud’s killer travelled to his Lot 66 Herstelling New Scheme, EBD home from the city. Investigators are basing their theory on the fact that the killer spent a little over 20 minutes asking residents in the area for directions to Persaud’s home.
There are also reports that a resident from the area, after receiving a description of the alleged killer, said that she was in a minibus with an individual who fitted the killer’s description.
The suspect is reportedly fair in complexion, about six feet tall with afro-hair style. He was wearing a pair of blue pants and was carrying a blue haversack.