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((This shitbag's ears should be handed to him one at a time---then, his balls...Ron))  Hemant Megnath is taken from 103rd Precinct stationhouse in Jamaica, Queens.
 Megnath is accused of killing 20-year-old Natasha Ramen, above. New York Daily News NYC He was arrested, charged with a brutal rape and ordered to stay away from the young woman he allegedly attacked. But when Natasha Ramen stepped outside her Queens home last week, the accused rapist - set free on $10,000 bail - was allegedly waiting. He grabbed her from behind and slit her throat from ear to ear, killing her, police said yesterday. Ramen, an attractive 20-year-old, was preparing to testify as soon as next month against Hemant Megnath, who allegedly raped her in 2005 and was charged yesterday with her murder. The young woman's death sickened her loved ones, who wondered why Megnath had been set free on bail - and then allowed to stay out of jail even after he allegedly threatened to hurt Ramen and her family if she testified. "My God. What was he doing walking the street?" wept her aunt Salema DeLeon, 42. "He made threatening calls. He text-messaged her, too. We reported it to the police. He told her that if she didn't drop the charges, he was going to kill her and her husband." "Her husband got a text message the day she was murdered: 'One gone, one more to go,'" DeLeon said. "The judge gave him more than enough time to kill her. The system failed her." Megnath, a hospital worker who lives in his parents' basement, allegedly raped Ramen in May 2005. She waited nine months to report the attack because she was married and ashamed, a police source said. Megnath, 29, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, was arraigned on rape charges in February last year and released on bail a few weeks later. Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge John Wilson issued an order of protection and set the bail at $10,000, court records show. Wilson gained notoriety last year for writing a children's book that critics called a thinly veiled anti-immigration screed. As the rape case moved toward trial, four other judges upheld the bail amount, records show. It was not clear if prosecutors had opposed bail. The Brooklyn district attorney's office and Wilson declined to comment. David Bookstaver, a spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration, noted that bail is used "to ensure the defendant's return to court. It cannot be used for preventative detention or punitive reasons." But Ramen's uncle said much more should have been done to protect her. "There is no law in New York City," fumed Narine Bharat, 54, a diesel mechanic. "What do we have to do, go back to the Old West and hang him? The judge needs to be investigated." Law enforcement sources said Megnath met Ramen, a secretary, two years ago while she was looking for an apartment. Megnath, who worked as an assistant to a real estate agent, and Ramen are both Guyanese immigrants and had been introduced by an acquaintance, the sources said. On May 22, 2005, Megnath stopped at his Hart St. home and lured Ramen inside, telling her he needed to get something, the sources said. He then allegedly raped her. Megnath was due back in court next month. Ramen's landlord found her blood-soaked body about 8:20a.m. Thursday in a driveway outside of her Hollis apartment. "It was a very deep wound," said Lt. Salvatore Salerno. It didn't take long for detectives to turn their attention to Megnath, who had been arrested last September for allegedly making threatening phone calls to Ramen's in-laws. The charges later were dismissed because of insufficient evidence, authorities said. If convicted of killing a witness, Megnath could be imprisoned for life without parole. "This is a terribly sad and tragic case," Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. "Not only in terms of the victim's violent death but also because of the degradation and humiliation that she had allegedly previously suffered at the hands of the defendant."
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