Execution arranged over missingTT$800

May 20, 2009 News

Guyanese labourers’ killings in T&T…

– Guardian crime reporter

“As far as I know, they were working with a guy and he accused them of stealing from him,” according to Francis Joseph, the senior crime reporter of the Trinidad Guardian, who told this to Kaieteur News last night in a telephone interview.

Vinod Doobay

He added that as far as he is aware the employer arranged for the two Guyanese, 28-year-old Narad Sookhoo and 22-year-old Vinod Doobay, to be kidnapped and killed.
He said that he did not see any of the bodies.
Joseph said that the suspect was not arrested and added that he was not hiding since there is no warrant for his arrest.
“These things (investigations) take time but the matter is being investigated and I will have details tomorrow (today).”
The two Guyanese nationals each died from a single gunshot wound to the back of their heads.
Their bodies were discovered sunken in a river at an abandoned landfill in Felicity, Chaguanas, on Sunday morning, hours after they were taken from a construction site, mere metres from their St Augustine home.
Investigating officers are expected to make several arrests. Earlier, police reported that Doobay and Sookhoo, both construction workers, were accused of stealing $800 from the home of a Central businessman.
Trinidad Police also reported that the men had worked at the businessman’s premises, but left after their employer accused two other work colleagues of stealing money and physically assaulted them.
Reports are that Doobay and Sookhoo left the site and were subsequently contacted via telephone by their boss who queried their reason for leaving the site.

Narad Sookhoo

Earlier investigations revealed that the Guyanese did not steal the money but were upset over the alleged beating of their co-workers.
Police also say the businessman accused Doobay and Sookhoo of stealing the money and threatened to kill them.
Sookhoo and Doobay were staying with relatives in St Augustine. The two were snatched around 18:00hrs on Saturday by three men, who bundled them into a heavily tinted car. Among the comments out of Trinidad following the killings was one that stated “it is easier to call a shot on someone and have them killed because our land has become a lawless society. Ah hope the businessman gets his money back from the dead men.”