Latest update January 18th, 2025 4:41 AM
Police still seek clues in Mahaica truck driver murder
Police are still searching for further evidence in the murder of Mahaica truck driver, Jadesh Dass,
whose body was discovered lying in some bushes along the Mahaica New Road with what turned out to be a gunshot wound to the head, early last week Tuesday.
Investigators had detained three men, including Dass’s employer, but after a day of questioning they released them on $100,000 bail each.
This was after the men through their attorney moved to the High Court to secure their liberty.
Dass, according to a post mortem report, had been shot twice in the head after he had stopped his truck on the desolate roadway in the wee hours of the morning.
At the time he was headed for the Soesdyke/Linden Highway sandpits.
Police had arrested the suspects after reports of a triangular love affair involving Dass and one of the men’s wives were circulated.
However, investigators have gotten no further than those reports after questioning the suspects.
This newspaper was told that following the disclosure that Dass was shot, detectives swabbed the hands of the suspects for any gunpowder residue.
The results of the swabs are still being awaited.
From all appearances Dass, of Chelsea Park, Mahaica, was forced to stop his truck on the dark and lonely carriageway by his killers who then murdered him before dumping his body on the nearby parapet close to the trench that runs parallel to the road.
Murdered truck driver Jadesh Dass
Such was the brutality of the attack on Dass that pieces of his skull were left at the spot where his body lay.
Investigators have ruled out robbery as a motive since the cash that Dass was carrying was still intact.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that another truck driver had noticed Dass’s truck parked in a dark section of the road, with the hazard lights on.
At first the other driver thought that Dass had been tending to a call of nature in the nearby bushes and he stopped to ensure that that was the case.
However, after calling out for Dass and getting no answer, he became suspicious and decided to check the area around the truck.
His suspicions were further aroused when he noticed Dass’s cellular phone on the road; but there was still no sign of him.
After a thorough search by relatives who were contacted, the truck driver’s body was found a short distance from his parked vehicle.
Recently, information emerged that greens vendors who were on their way to the city at that time of the morning had observed the confrontation between Dass and his killers.
However, they quickly went about their own business when they heard gunshots.
Investigators are now trying to locate these vendors with a view to cracking the case.
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