Kitty taxi driver murder…‘Eyewitness’ says he saw suspect near victim’s home

Apr 19, 2012 News

Police have questioned a man who claims that he saw the prime suspect in Balram Jadoonauth’s murder near the taxi driver’s home shortly before he was gunned down.
A police official said that they had initially planned to release the suspect, but are now keeping him in custody due to the new information. He has been in custody since Sunday.
Kaieteur News understands that forensic tests revealed no traces of gunpowder on the suspect’s hands.
Police had said on Tuesday that checks on the man’s movements seemed to confirm that the man, who is also a taxi driver, was at home when Jadoonauth was slain.
An official said that the East Coast Demerara resident did not work last Saturday night, and that he went to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport the following day to pick up a relative.
Investigators still believe that Jadoonauth was killed because of an affair he was having with the suspect’s wife.
Police said the 36-year-old man admitted that he had threatened to kill Jadoonauth but denied that he had committed the act. Police have also detained the man’s wife.
Checks of the man’s phone records reportedly showed that he had contacted Jadoonauth on numerous occasions.
A female relative of the detained man said that the man was at home the entire Saturday. She said he left for the airport at around 06:30 hrs on Sunday to pick up a cousin who had arrived on a 07:30 hrs flight.
Jadoonauth, also known as “Sanjay”, was shot dead in front of his Lot 25 Dennis Street, Campbellville, home in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

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