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Linden man believed executed on ganja farm
– cops still to recover body
Police are searching for the body of a Linden man, who is believed killed execution-style Friday on a marijuana farm near the old Mackenzie airstrip at Ituni Road.
Investigators have received reports that 21-year-old Clifton Bonus, called Motto, of Nottinghamshire, and of Silvertown, Wismar, Linden, was shot in the chest by another man during an argument over stolen marijuana.
Police and relatives are to resume the search today but some reports suggest that the killer and his accomplices have already disposed of the corpse.
Detectives have taken statements from a man who claimed that he fled from the marijuana farm after witnessing the shooting. He also identified the killer, who is said to be an in-law of the slain man.
Kaieteur News understands that the suspect later went home and collected a sum of cash from a female relative.
Karen lasley second from right sits next to her mother Brenda Sampson, at the Mackenzie police station.
The eyewitness, who worked with the marijuana farmers, reportedly told police that he, Bonus, the suspect and two other men were on the farm on Friday when the suspect accused Bonus of stealing some marijuana seeds.
He alleged that the suspect then shot Bonus in the chest.
The eyewitness reportedly said that he was ordered to ‘beat out’ after the first shot.
Police later accompanied the man to the area where the execution occurred but failed to find the body.
At the Mackenzie Police Station yesterday, Karen Lashley, the slain man’s mother, wept bitterly while she waited for word on whether her son’s body had been recovered.
“Is since Friday they kill he, and is only yesterday we know!” she lamented.
The woman said that she had been waiting at the station “since morning,” and still had not received any word from the police.
Lashley said that she last saw her son two Mondays ago.
Clifton Bonus, her only son, reportedly lived with her at Silvertown, until he moved out and went to live with the mother of his child at Nottinghamshire.
He reportedly worked with the woman’s brother.
Lashley said she did not know where her son worked or the nature of his job.
Bonus’s grandmother, Brenda Sampson, said that she called her daughter, Karen, to find out about Clifton after learning that he had left to visit his mother and hadn’t turned up.
Ms. Sampson said she then advised her daughter to make a report to the police, but Karen told her that the girl’s mother had already reported the matter.
The grandmother said that around 21:00 hrs on Sunday, a male relative informed her that Clifford had been killed.
“Well with that I start screaming; then my daughter, she say ‘yes mommy, the girl mother called and she seh Clifton dead, he get shoot.’”
The woman said that the family was subsequently told that the body was at the old airport but found no sign of the corpse when they got there.
A source close to the family said that the suspect had recently warned a family member that he would kill Bonus, for following him (the killer) ‘over the hills.’
Another source close to the family said that a brother of the killer said: “I find Motto body and Lake (the suspect) shallow-grave (bury) he.”
According to other reports, when Mrs. Lashley visited the home of the suspect’s mother, a relative blurted out: “Mommy, tell the lady wha yuh son do she son; tell she is you own son kill she son!”
Dead: Clifton Bonus
Kaieteur News was told that some of the killer’s cronies were reportedly looking for the body with pit bulls earlier, even before the police were called in.
Other reports indicate that a relative of the suspect had reportedly found the body in a shallow grave and removed it.
The relatives said that Bonus’s reputed wife told them that he had left home on Saturday around 09:00 hrs. But they said that according to reports they had received, he had been killed since Friday morning.
The suspect is reportedly wanted by police for another murder.
Meanwhile, police reportedly received a telephone call late yesterday afternoon, informing them that a body had been spotted at Loo Creek, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. That report was still being investigated.
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