TESTIMONY: Oren Shlomo Mayer, one of two main suspects, said Ewart Odane Bent, the other, had framed him, but Bent said he had witnessed the killing unintentionally

Taipei Times
Date: Feb 01, 2019
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The two principal suspects in last year’s murder of Canadian resident Sanjay Ryan Ramgahan in New Taipei City, both US nationals, yesterday at the start of their trial gave conflicting accounts and accused each other of carrying out the crime, while prosecutors brought new charges against two alleged accomplices.

Prosecutors have said that 37-year-old Oren Shlomo Mayer, who has dual US and Israeli citizenship, masterminded the murder and instructed the accomplices.

Evidence pointed to both Mayer and his American friend, Ewart Odane Bent, 30, being together during and after the killing, they said.

Ramgahan’s dismembered body was found at a riverside park by the Sindian River (新店溪) in Yonghe District (永和) on Aug. 22 last year.    [FULL  STORY]