Foreign morgues have never been strangers to Canadians murdered overseas.
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The circumstances are often dramatically different, the results are typically the same. Canada usually does not want to know about it. So basically, you are on your own.
When Keswick mother-of-two Francesca Matus and her American boyfriend were viciously murdered in a sugar cane field in Belize on the night before she was flying home, the U.S. reacted. A team of FBI agents was dispatched to the violent Central American country to investigate.
Canada? Nada.
The 2017 double murder remains unsolved.
The Narpatty family of Toronto can sympathize. There have been convictions in the gruesome Dec. 17, 2019, murder of 71-year-old patriarch Vivekanand Narpatty. After decades in Canada, he returned to Guyana to open a beach resort.
That gambit ended in tragedy.
Cops there say the alleged mastermind — his brother Rishi Deo Narpatty — is in the wind and believed to be in the U.S. Guyana has not contacted Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals or Interpol. Global Affairs?
“This was a well-planned, diabolical plot with siblings, squatters and other accessories to murder,” Narpatty’s widow Carol alleged to the Toronto Sun. “This all happened because his siblings did not want to give him his rightful share of property.”
Vivekanand Narpatty had been entitled to one-third of his grandfather’s rice mill property in Berbice, Guyana, along the coast. In the same area, he tried to make his beach resort a success.
But behind the scenes, his violent death was being monstrously plotted. Narpatty was beaten to death and two of his toes were severed. Security guard Harry Persaud was also murdered, his foot severed.
Every bone in Narpatty’s body was broken while the killers bashed the security guard’s head in.
The murders went cold for four years until police in Guyana arrested several local thugs who would eventually finger the so-called brains: Rishi Deo Narpatty.
“I’m really not pleased with how the Guyanese government and justice system treated and dealt with my late father’s murder,” the victim’s daughter, Ebony Narpatty, said.
“I believe much more could have been done and I feel like my dad’s story is not given the full attention it needs to prove if the system works there.”
The family suspects that the alleged mastermind is being protected by the government in Guyana. Carol Narpatty alleged there are more outstanding suspects, including a cop.
Carol added: “I miss my husband very much and we worked hand-in-hand here to get our piece of paradise on the beach. We still need full justice … and we will not allow this case to get cold and thrown away like so many others in Guyana.”
Ebony Narpatty said her father was a charitable Christian, always ready to help out the Guyanese community.
Bizarrely, she said the government in Guyana is encouraging her family to invest in the South American country.
“Yet we’re ignored and avoided. This shouldn’t be. It’s an inhuman way to treat someone who left a good life in Canada to invest in Guyana,” she said.
“I know definitely in my heart I will get justice someday with myself and others pushing for justice, hopefully sooner than later. I will love my dad forever and do everything I can to ensure his dream survives.”
While homicide detectives in Guyana eventually snared the killers in the horrific murder of Vivekanand Narpatty, they still haven’t put the alleged brains behind it all on ice.
One thing is certain, they shouldn’t ask for any help from Canada.