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Clues suggest insurance executive was slain by close acquaintance
By Michael Jordan
Insurance executive Bert Whyte was murdered by a close male friend who reportedly lured him to Bentick Street with the sole aim of killing the 44-year-old and stealing his car.
While police are still seeking a breakthrough, information about the murder suggests that victim and killer knew each other well, and that Whyte trusted the individual enough to go with him to a desolate area that is a known haven for robbers.
Bert Whyte
The fact that the individual was armed with an ice-pick also indicates that the crime was premeditated. In addition, the fact that Whyte’s Toyota Sprinter, PKK 8566, is still to be located seems to bolster suggestions that theft of the vehicle was the killer’s main motive. Whyte, it is believed, had to be disposed of because he could identify his attacker.
The fact that Whyte was still in possession of cash, his cellular phone and a gold ring may have misled police into believing that a dispute, rather than robbery, was the primary motive for the murder.
Information suggests that the killer was a professional robber since he was able to dispose of his victim with two stab wounds which were inflicted directly to the victim’s heart and to one of his lungs.
Detectives are going through a list of the slain man’s associates to ascertain who the individual might be.
According to eyewitness reports, Whyte, of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, was seen struggling with another man in his car before exiting the vehicle and running into Main Street and collapsing outside of the Palm Court Restaurant and Bar.
The description that sources have given of the attacker is of a slim, dark-complexioned young man of African ancestry.
Information reaching Kaieteur News suggests that Whyte’s association with the individual may have begun some two years ago. Whyte had held managerial positions at the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Checks of Whyte’s movements last Monday reveal that he had picked up his niece from a private school in the city hours before his death. The child told detectives that there was another man who is unfamiliar to her in Whyte’s car when she was picked up.
Instead of taking his niece home, Whyte reportedly dropped the girl off at the Stabroek Speedboat Stelling for her to make her way home to Pouderoyen.
Accompanied by his killer, he then made the fateful journey to Bentick Street, Tiger Bay.
After he was stabbed, Whyte ran to Palm Court before collapsing in front of the popular nightspot. He managed to give his cellular phone to the security personnel at the establishment who subsequently contacted relatives.
They managed to rush him to the GPHC where he died shortly after.
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