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Suspect in bank employee’s murder released

Sep 18, 2010 News

Police have released the driver who was detained four days ago in connection with the murder of bank employee Sheema Mangar.
A police official said that the 31-year-old man was released on station bail yesterday. The source explained that he had spent 72 hours in custody and investigators lack the evidence to link him to Mangar’s demise.
But he was ordered to lodge his passport with the police and he has to report daily at the Brickdam Police Station.
The car the man drove also remains impounded.
Investigators have gathered forensic evidence, including a strand of hair, from the vehicle, which had a slightly damaged front fender and bonnet.
Hair and other samples were also taken from the victim’s remains, and police sources have indicated that overseas assistance will be sought in conducting DNA tests.
The driver, who has a Kingston address, was taken into custody last Monday after police received information which suggested that he had driven the car which ran over and killed 21-year-old Mangar.
According to information provided to investigators, two persons were in the car.
Police had also detained the man’s aunt, who reportedly owns the silver-grey car that the suspect drives. She has also been released.
According to an eyewitness, Sheema Mangar, of 675 Block Eight Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was run over by a silver-grey car two Friday ago after one of the occupants had snatched her Blackberry cell phone.
An eyewitness has said that Mangar pursued the thief and stood in front of the car that the man had entered.
The eyewitness alleged that the occupants drove the car over Mangar, who was dragged to Church Street.
The car then headed east along Church Street.
Mangar died the following day at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
An autopsy revealed that she died as a result of a ruptured spleen. She had also sustained a broken right hand, head injuries and lacerations to the body.

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