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Taxi driver beaten, tied and left in drain

Jun 14, 2013 News

–    Car stolen
Even as he tried to make a living on the roadways as a taxi driver, 26-year-old Robin Deodas, was severely brutalised and his car was stolen by three men to whom he rendered his service. He was hospitalized as a result of the vicious attack.
Mid-afternoon Monday —just around 14:00hrs—Deodas picked up a young man at Parika in his Toyota Allion, bearing number plate HB 9570. The man asked to be transported from the East Bank Essequibo location to Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
Kaieteur News was told by the victim’s relatives that when Deodas entered Eccles, the “customer” told him that he had to pick up two friends from the back of Eccles then proceed to another location. He did not specify the other location.
The man subsequently directed Deodas to an area near the dump site, where they picked up two other men.
Deodas told his relatives that the three men didn’t even give him a chance to drive off, they immediately attacked him at that location. He was stomped and beaten about the face and body, then tied up with rope, which one of the men had, and dumped into a nearby drain.
The taxi driver managed to relieve himself and solicited assistance from a truck driver with whom he came into contact with further up the road.
Deodas reportedly suffered a broken jaw and severe lacerations about the face and body.  He was taken to a private hospital where he underwent surgery to put in place a bone that was protruding just below his eyes.
Deodas described the initial man that he picked up—to his fellow taxi drivers— as a slim, medium height man of East Indian descent.
Some taxi drivers said that the description was similar to an individual who frequents the area at Parika where they are based.
The matter was reported to the Providence Police Station and is now being dealt with at Brickdam.
Deodas was discharged from hospital yesterday morning but so far, efforts by the police and even Deodas’s friends and family to locate the car have been futile.  It is said that the car was only purchased last year.
The front windscreen of the missing car carried the name Rebecca and Leon.

 

 

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