Man promised cash installments to kill block-maker captured

Georgetown: Police apprehended a man who committed murder based on a mere promise of payments via installments to purchase an airline ticket to visit his girlfriend.
Police captured Oswald Junior Yaw, called Leow who was allegedly hired on credit to kill Herstelling block-maker Nathan Persaud recently.
The estranged wife of Herstelling block maker, Nathan Persaud was arrested hours after Persaud’s body was discovered in his house at 66 Herstelling New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara with a stab wound to his chest and the back of his head bashed in.
The woman gave investigators a detailed account of how she contracted the killer, who is now in police custody. Reports reveal the 22-year-old “Leow” from East Ruimveldt was arrested in the city Tuesday.
Trakker news understands that Yaw said he killed Persaud by first hitting him on the head with a clay-brick and stabbing him, then beating him to death with a hammer to complete the dastardly act.
The alleged killer also confessed that the dead man’s wife had promised him $1.7M to commit murder. Police disclosed that the woman had planned to raise the fund by selling a pool table at her Diamond, East Bank Demerara business place. Yaw was reportedly promised that he would be paid $100,000 per week.
Reports disclosed that the couple had 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. While the matter is engaging the court, 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 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.
She initially told detectives that while she had nothing to do with Persaud’s death, she was informed that her former spouse had concocted a plot with two men to execute her.
But 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 told him that she and a man had a problem and the only way she will feel comfortable was if the man was killed,” a police source told this newspaper. The man agreed to take the job and Persaud’s wife gave him her husband’s address.
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.
The suspect allegedly had his victim’s address written on a piece of paper.
“It’s very clear that he (suspect) didn’t know where he was going. I am certain he never met the man he killed,” a police source said.
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.