Sep 13, 2026
3 min read
Giresh Lautan, a 14-year-old student of Skeldon High School, died on Saturday after the motorcycle he was riding pillion on collided with a horse along the Number 50 Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.
The accident occurred between 3am and 4:30am. Lautan, of Number 52 Village, Corentyne, was reportedly a pillion rider on the motorcycle at the time.
According to reports, Lautan was picked up from his home by 19-year-old Deon Rodney, the boyfriend of his aunt, without the knowledge of his mother, Anita Tambrind.
Rodney was reportedly taking the teenager to Number 43 Village when the motorcycle collided with the animal on the roadway. He was injured and remains hospitalised at the Number 75 Regional Hospital, while Lautan died as a result of his injuries.
Tambrind said the tragedy came as a shock, as she had no idea her son had left home.
"The afternoon I came from work, we had a little chat and so on. From then I went to bed and sleep. And the morning I get a phone call that it's an accident. He come home here and wake him from his sleep and take him away with the motorbike," she said.
Tambrind alleged that Rodney was speeding and had been drinking before the accident.
"He was drunk and he ride so speed that he hit this horse on the road when my son flick off and this horse died too, on the spot," she alleged.
She said Lautan and Rodney knew each other through an online game, but maintained she was unaware the teenager had been taken from the house.
"They have contact through a game they does play. And so he come and he call on my child, wake him up and take him out of his bed and carry him away, I don't know anything," the grieving mother said.
She rushed to the Number 75 Regional Hospital after receiving news of the accident and recalled the painful moment she saw her eldest son.
"I saw my son, dead body. He went in a zip bag that I saw him. I see the face in blood and the nose full of blood and the whole, like this part here, he had a swell. Yeah, this neck part. He had, like from one side he got hit," she said.
Tambrind described her son as a quiet child who spent most of his time between school and home. He was her eldest of four children and, she said, played an important role in helping her manage the household.
She said the loss has left the family devastated and is now appealing for justice for her son.
"I want justice for my son. Son is innocent. He doesn't even know that he was going to reach his death. I care about my son. I feel so sorry and I feel so sad," Tambrind said.
Investigations are continuing into the circumstances surrounding the fatal collision.
