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Only 58% of E.C.D. murders solved so far for 2012
Jadesh Dass
Marlon Welcome
With 17 murders so far for the year the East Coast Demerara police division is still battling hard to improve its solving rate. So far 10 of these murders are before the courts, as investigators try to break the deadlock on the remaining seven.
Figures obtained by this newspaper indicate that eight of the murders so far have occurred in the East Coast Demerara Number Two Sub-Division (Turkeyen, Sparendaam, Beterverwagting), while the once crime-prone Vigilance/Cove and John District accounts for five.
There were three murders so far this year in the Mahaica district, while Mahaicony accounted for one.
A breakdown of the murders revealed that two murders remain unsolved in the Vigilance/Cove and John district.
They are the murders of watchman Rudolph Narine, whose body with a slit throat was discovered at the Enmore business place he was workong, and taxi driver Rajendra Puran, whose bound body was dumped in a drain two weeks earlier.
The Sparendaam district was the scene of the only execution-style murder on the East Coast of Demerara, when Giovani Leitch, 21, of Tucville was gunned down aback of the Plaisance Market in March.
His friend, Devon Agard, survived the attack which was reportedly carried out by two gunmen.
Leitch’s death along with the murders of Marlon Welcome and Mark Anthony Small, all remain unsolved.
Small, 49, a taxi driver attached to the GT Express Taxi Service, Sheriff Street, Georgetown was discovered dead in his car HB 7962, with about six stab wounds, on the Goedverwagting Access Road, East Coast Demerara. The car was partly
Rudolph Narine
submerged in the trench separating Goedverwagting and Market Road, Plaisance. The man’s personal belongings, including his wallet, were missing along with the dispatching set.
Welcome, a 33-year-old mechanic, was shot in the head in his ‘A’ Field, Sophia home on February 17. He succumbed at a private hospital.
The brutal April murder of 31-year-old truck driver, Jadesh Dass called ‘Baby-o’, of Chelsea Park, Mahaica, is still baffling investigators.
Dass’ body was discovered with its skull bashed in on the Mahaica Public Road, in the vicinity of Unity. Police had detained three persons, including Dass’ employer, but had to release them after unearthing no evidence to charge them for the crime.
Another puzzling murder is that of 46-year-old housewife Allinva Andrews, whose nude and decomposing body was found at Moraikobe, Mahaicony River, also in April.
It is believed that Andrews was raped before she was murdered since her clothing and torn underwear were found near the corpse.
“It looks like rape…her clothes were a little way from her body, and her tights were torn up…and the persons left a stick in her vagina,” her sister had claimed.
The East Coast Demerara has so far accounted for the second highest number of murders in the country so far this year, behind Georgetown and its environs, which have so far recorded 23 out of the total 75 murders committed countrywide at the end of July.
This total murder figure is 6% or five less than the figure for the same period last year.
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