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Dismembered Buxton woman…Labourer plotted murder with two others
Victim’s laptop, phone found in Bent St. house
Detectives on the East Coast of Demerara are making further inroads into the mystery of how United States of America-based Guyanese businesswoman Samantha Benjamin’s dismembered body ended up on the Annandale foreshore.
Murdered: Samantha Benjamin
Detectives are convinced that the man who was residing in the Buxton Middle Walk house where Benjamin was killed had orchestrated the plot to murder her, but they are still trying to establish a clear motive. They are basing their conviction on the fact that he has admitted to organising the murder but did not actually participate in it.
According to a source, the suspect reported that after Benjamin broke up with her estranged husband, she came and took up residence in the middle walk house.
It was while she was there that she confided in him about her business plans, including the plan to purchase a car.
He admitted that he plotted with two other men to kill her for her money.
The suspect reportedly claimed that Benjamin put up a fierce fight and was hacked to death.
Her body was then dismembered and taken away in an effort to conceal the crime.
Investigators were also able to recover Benjamin’s laptop computer and her cellular phone from a house in Bent Street, Georgetown, yesterday.
Kaieteur News understands that acting on information they recovered during the interrogation of the suspect, the police went to the Bent Street house where they questioned a woman.
The woman admitted that she was in possession of a laptop and a cellular phone which were both taken there by the suspect on the day that Benjamin’s remains were discovered.
The woman, who was detained yesterday, reportedly told investigators that the suspect had taken the items to her house in exchange for drugs.
Detectives are also looking for one of Benjamin’s missing suitcases.
A police source close to the investigations told this newspaper that they have secured permission to extend the suspect’s detention, since they are certain that they have garnered sufficient information to link him to the crime that has gripped the small East Coast Demerara village of Buxton.
According to the source, the suspect who was detained on Tuesday night had given conflicting statements about his whereabouts during the time Benjamin disappeared.
The man had first told detectives that he last saw Benjamin on Friday, although her body was recovered the day before. Apparently realizing his mistake, he then changed his story, telling investigators that he was in Berbice and returned to the house on Friday and found Benjamin’s room locked.
He claimed that he thought that the woman had left and was not returning.
But investigators subsequently learnt that the woman’s body was carved up in a house she was sharing with the suspect, who worked as a labourer rearing chickens for her relative, and transported in a wheelbarrow to the foreshore where the parts were dumped.
The wheelbarrow with blood stains was seen under the house when this newspaper visited on Wednesday.
This newspaper was reliably informed that the police have detained a villager who has claimed that he was paid to push the wheelbarrow to the foreshore with Benjamin’s body inside. But the man is maintaining that he was unaware that the wheelbarrow contained parts of a human corpse.
The police have also recovered a cutlass which they suspect was used in the murder.
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