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Taxi driver slain
– body dumped at LBI
Rawle Henry and his reputed wife Carmelita Collins in happier times.
The body of a taxi driver with his head almost severed, was recovered from a clump of bushes at Onion Field, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, a few hours after the car he was driving was found in a trench five miles away in the Sparendaam Squatting Area.
Investigators are working on the theory that Rawle Henry, 42, of 15 D’Urban Backlands was the victim of a carjacking.
They believe that Henry, a father of five, was killed trying to fight off his attackers and then dumped in the secluded area.
His body was discovered around 17: 00 hours by residents of the LBI area who subsequently informed the police.
At the time investigators were probing the discovery of a silver-grey Toyota Carina 212 motorcar, with bloodstains inside, but had no idea that it was linked to the body at LBI.
However, after contacting the owner and subsequently, Henry’s wife Carmelita Collins, they were able to ascertain that the dead man was indeed the driver.
Detectives watch as undertakers remove Henry’s partly decapitated body.
Collins told this newspaper that she last saw her reputed husband of three years, at around 22:00 hours at the Demico Taxi Park.
According to the woman, she said that Henry gave her some money and told her to go home and he would follow soon.
Upon arriving home, she called Henry on his cellular phone to inform him that she had reached safely.
Collins recalled that the last thing Henry told her was to prepare something for him to eat.
“While cooking, I go and sit down and watch TV. Then my phone ring and when I check it, it was his number. I say, ‘Babes wha happen?’ When I say so all I hear is, ‘Oh, you call she so and so’,” Collins recalled.
She said that Henry did not respond and the telephone signal got weaker and weaker before it went dead.
“I call back the phone about a hundred and something times but I ain’t get through,” Collins said, adding that at that time she suspected that something terrible had happened to Henry.
She hurriedly dragged on some clothes and went back to the Stabroek Market to enquire from Henry’s taxi colleagues about anything suspicious that they might have observed.
“I ask them what time he leave the park. Some say he leave a long while and some say he just leave. I gave some of them my number and told them to call me if they hear anything. I didn’t get no call, me and he don’t live so,” Collins said.
The following morning when she checked her cell phone she became more worried when she saw that there were no missed calls.
She then took a photograph of her reputed husband to a television station in the hope that someone would see it and give her the information that she was seeking.
She subsequently filed a missing persons report to the police and later checked the Georgetown Hospital but there was still no word on the fate that befell Henry.
“Then I hear they find some car. I call the owner for the car and ask he if he get any news and he tell me come down at the (Sparendaam) station, they find the car,” Collins told this newspaper.
By then she was becoming very fearful but was not prepared for what was to follow.
“I say like them gun hurt he and throw he in some corner and people gun see he and carry he at the hospital,” Collins told Kaieteur News.
She suddenly became hysterical, trying to recall how she finally learnt of her reputed husband’s fate.
When she arrived at the police station she was then told that they had found somebody.
A police source said that someone called and informed them that ‘somebody head get chop off and he deh in a bush.’
“I had given a policeman my number and I called him and he tell me come down to LBI. When I come I see is he (Henry),” Collins said.
Henry’s body bore several chops in the neck as if someone was desperately trying to sever it.
His hands were tied and mouth was covered with duct tape.
Residents of the Sparendaam Squatting area where the car was found told this newspaper that they did not hear or see anything suspicious.
One resident said that she awoke and was surprised to see the car in the trench.
The car was stripped of its CD player and speakers and there was blood on the back seat, which suggested that Henry was wounded in the car or was already dead and was transported to the place where he was eventually dumped.
No one has so far been arrested.
SERVER MONDAY: BEHEADED
CAPTION: Detectives watch as undertakers remove Henry’s partly decapitated body.
BEHEADED 2
CAPTION: The car Henry was driving was neatly parked in this Sparendaam squatting area trench.
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