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Suspect in insurance executive’s murder captured
After almost four month on the run, Clive Knights, the prime suspect in the murder of insurance executive Bert Whyte, has been captured.
Police said that the suspect was nabbed yesterday when ranks stopped a minibus at Yarrowkabra, on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.Kaieteur News understands that one of the ranks recognized Knights as being the individual that police have been searching for in connection with Whyte’s murder. However, a source said that the suspect initially identified himself as ‘Troy David.’ He reportedly eventually admitted to being Knights after another policeman identified him. Knights is a former security guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where Whyte had also worked before becoming an insurance executive.
Whyte, 45, of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, was stabbed on May 14 last while sitting in his car in the Tiger Bay area.
Checks of Whyte’s movements revealed 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 was 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 the man in the car, he reportedly then went to a Duncan Street night spot.
Later, the two men headed to Tiger Bay.
Reports indicate that the suspect was driving while Whyte, a Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited Manager, was in the front passenger seat.
An eyewitness reportedly later saw Whyte struggling with another man in the vehicle.
Bert Whyte
Although wounded, Whyte managed to exit the vehicle and run into Main Street before collapsing outside of a Main Street Restaurant and Bar. He also managed to give his cellular phone to the security personnel at the establishment who subsequently contacted relatives.
Whyte succumbed at the GPHC.
It is believed that Whyte’s killer took his stolen car to Berbice.
A few days after the murder, a police rank spotted someone driving the vehicle in New Amsterdam, Berbice. However, the occupant abandoned the car in Angoy’s Avenue after police gave chase.
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