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Funeral parlour owner, two others detained

Oct 21, 2009 News

Degutted bodies…

Police were last night questioning a funeral parlour owner, his brother and an employee in connection with the brutal murder of the crew members of the Island Princess.
The men were taken into custody late yesterday evening and were being interrogated by detectives.
The Island Princess, a cargo boat, disappeared late September in the Essequibo River.
The police said that in the wake of the Island Princess murders they began seeking the funeral parlour owner but the man remained at large until yesterday.
Reports are that this funeral parlour owner also operates a boat.  The bodies of Island Princess captain, Titus Buckley Nascimento, 46, and 25-year-old engineer Mahendra Singh, were found at Zeelandia, Wakenaam, and on the Hamburg Island seashore respectively.
A third body, identified as that of 23-year-old Ryan Chin, was found near the Queenstown, Essequibo foreshore.
All the bodies were degutted and bore bullet wounds.
Still missing is 46-year-old crewman Rickford Bannister.
The deserted Island Princess was found last week off the coast of Grenada.
Police officials who boarded the vessel reportedly found some 20,000 gallons of fuel, a radio set, an aluminium life boat and navigational equipment on board.
Several gallons of fuel had spilled in the boat.
The vessel was reportedly repainted white.

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