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Third body is not Bannister’s
Murder on the Island Princess…
The third gutted body that was found near the Queenstown, Essequibo foreshore last week may not be that of seaman Rickford Bannister.
Police officials reported that Bannister’s relatives said that the decomposed remains were not his after observing that the corpse bore a tattoo of a cross on the right side chest.
An aunt of crewman Ryan Chin told Kaieteur News, yesterday, that Chin had a similar tattoo on the right side chest.
Rickford Bannister
The aunt said that none of the relatives went to identify the body yesterday because they had assumed that the 23-year-old from Lot 39 Friar’s Rust, Linden, was still missing.
The victim, now suspected to be Chin, was clad in a pair of red briefs and the body bore a bullet wound to the head and another on one of the legs.
The corpse was in an advanced state of decomposition. Police were forced to bury it near the La Union foreshore.
According to the aunt, they were subsequently informed of the tattoo and police officials have said that they will take samples for DNA evidence.
Meanwhile, police said the bodies of 46-year-old boat Captain Titus Buckley and 25-year-old engineer, Mahendra Singh were positively identified yesterday after they were exhumed in the presence of relatives.
Buckley’s degutted body, which bore bullet wounds, was found at Zeelandia, Wakenaam seashore.
Mahendra Singh’s corpse, with similar injuries, was found on the Hamburg Island seashore.
Ranks from the police forensic laboratory were also present.
Kaieteur News understands that the remains have since been handed over to the relatives.
According to reports, the crew of the Island Princess had taken the vessel on a trial run to test its seaworthiness for the planned trip to Trinidad.
Their employer last heard from them two Saturdays ago, while the vessel was moored at a place called Parika Beach.
The crew had indicated that they were coming in to port in the Demerara River when they were contacted around 18:00 hrs.
However, hours later when they did not show up, several attempts to contact them proved futile.
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