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Kara Kara bodies positively identified

Nov 28, 2010 News

…captured gunman now faces several charges

The bodies of the two persons found in shallow graves at Kara Kara on Friday were identified yesterday at the Lyken Funeral Parlour, as Kurt Thierens and Adriano Tracey, 30, of William Street, Campbellville.
The post mortem conducted by Government Pathologist Dr. Vivakanand Bridgemohan, confirmed that both men had died from gunshot wounds.
It was previously thought one of the victims was Keith Ferrier called “General,” who is wanted for murder, the November 2009 High Court arson attempt and attacks on two police stations.
The post mortem revealed that Tracey was shot four times; once in the head, once in the back that exited through the front of the stomach, and twice in the left hand.
One of the bullets severed the tips of two fingers on his left hand while another fractured his left wrist and entered his left side.
Tracey was slain about three days ago while Thierens, if captured wanted man Colin Jones is to be believed, may have been killed on November 12, contrary to what was reported in yesterday’s issue.
Adriano Tracey’s mother, Mrs. Lucinda Tracey, told Kaieteur News that she was able to identify her son by his upper dentures. The dead man had a gold-capped tooth as well as a missing tooth.
Thierens’s body was in a more advanced state of decomposition. He had been shot in the head.
His mother, Daphne Garner, who was also present, was too distraught to view her son’s remains, and had to be assisted in and out of the mortuary.
The man was nevertheless identified by a woman who said that she was Thierens’s wife. People who knew Thierens when he taught music at President’s College, were however questioning the dreadlocks found on the head of the corpse.
Mrs. Tracey said she was contacted by the police early yesterday morning. She said the ranks informed her that they had found the remains of two men at a location in the Kara Kara Creek area and that they wanted her to identify one of the victims.
In addition, people close to Adriano Tracey said they suspected that he was somehow linked to criminal activities, since police had raided his home shortly after the Ministry of Health fire.
“After the police raided the place he left we never see he back…He use to be in the Islands but just so he just distance heself,” one associate said.
Mrs. Tracey said she last saw her son alive shortly after the Ministry of Health buildings in Brickdam were channa-bombed.
She said the police had searched her house shortly after the fire.
Meanwhile, as police continue their investigation yesterday they are working on information that was given to them by the self- confessed killer, Colin Jones, called ‘Bunny’.
The man reportedly told investigators that he and other gang members were being financed from a US-based group that would send “US$500” every month.
Jones reportedly told investigators that the same US-based group provided the weapons that police recovered at Kara Kara and Amelia’s Ward.
Meanwhile, a police official said that Jones is likely to appear in court next week on a series of charges.
He and Thierens were both arrested in connection with the Health Ministry fire.
On Friday, Jones led police to two decomposed bodies buried in shallow graves several miles up the Kara Kara Creek.
He also identified the bodies as belonging to two accomplices that he had killed. He took the ranks to a camp his gang had occupied.
At the scene, police recovered two AK 47 assault rifles without magazines, a quantity of 7.62 x 39 rounds, a grenade, two bullet-proof vests, and a several flares from a tarpaulin-covered camp.
A ten-foot boat with a five horsepower Yamaha outboard motor engine was also found in a swampy area adjoining the creek.
Jones was captured on Friday when police spotted the shirtless man walking in the Linden community.
The previous day, Jones had hurled a grenade at some ranks. The grenade failed to explode.
That day, police recovered an AK- 47 rifle, seven magazines, 198 rounds of 7.62 x 39 ammunition, two pairs of handcuffs, one camouflage bullet-proof vest, a green long-sleeved overcoat, a green camouflage haversack and a bible.

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