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Soldier found dead in Lamaha Springs house
-bloodstained knife near body
Police have questioned several people in connection with the suspected murder of a 38-year-old soldier, whose body was found around 01:00 hrs yesterday in his locked house at Lot 40 Lamaha Springs.
Dead: Akini Sampson
Lance Corporal Akini Sampson was found lying face-down in his bed by his stepson, Kester Williams, who was forced to pry open a window to gain entry to the property.
Kaieteur News understands that the bed was blood-soaked and a kitchen knife with bloodstains was found near the corpse, which was in the early stages of decomposition.
Close associates of the dead soldier described him as a ladies’ man and said that he was involved in recent disputes with a man with whose wife Sampson was having an affair.
Neighbours confirmed seeing the woman with whom Samson was having an affair, entering his house with him late Wednesday night.
Raynette McDonald, Sampson’s fiancée, told Kaieteur News that she last saw him alive at his home around 10:30 hrs on Wednesday. According to the woman, the soldier went out after telling her that he was going “to do business.” She said that she left some minutes later.
She said that relatives later tried to reach Sampson on his cell phone and got no answer. The woman said that she eventually learned of his death yesterday after Sampson’s sister contacted her.
Kester Williams, the victim’s stepson, told Kaieteur News that he last saw his stepfather around 09:30 hrs on Wednesday at the Lamaha Springs residence. He said that Sampson’s girlfriend was also at the house.
Williams, a taxi driver, said that he left and when he returned around 21:30 hrs, the house was locked and the lights were off.
“I figured that he had gone out and I went back to work.”
According to Williams, he returned around 23:00 hrs on Wednesday and seeing that the house was still locked, decided to sleep in his car, since he did not have the keys to the premises.
The taxi driver said that the following day he contacted an aunt who informed him that she was not reaching Sampson on his cell phone. He said that after sleeping by his mother-in-law’s house, he returned early yesterday morning to the Lamaha Springs house, which was still locked.
This time, the step-son said that he forced open a window and entered the house, since he was tired and wanted to rest. It was only when he entered his stepfather’s house in search of matches that he saw Sampson’s body on the bed.
The taxi driver said that after calling out to his stepfather and getting no response, he contacted a neighbour who advised him to go to the police. He then brought a rank to the house.
Sampson’s sister, Fiona Simon, said she was at her Buxton home when she received a telephone call from one of Sampson’s neighbours, informing her that her brother’s decomposed body has been found. The woman said she and her brother’s fiancée, Raynette McDonald, immediately travelled to the city.
The room in which Sampson’s body was found.
“When we reach, I see him lying face down, his face swollen, his eyes bulge out and his body has marks. The marks look like burns, you know when you get burned and they would swell up…” the sister said.
The woman said her brother has many girlfriends and he recently got himself involved with a woman who is married.
“The woman is them ‘big and bad’ woman. She got she husband and she ain’t want left my brother alone. Three times her husband run my brother and beat him.”
Kaieteur News understands that Sampson’s fiancée lives in Berbice but travelled to Buxton a few months ago, where she spent a few weeks with him at his sister’s home.
“They come by me and they spend some time because she (McDonald) was sick, they went back by his house last month, but this other woman that he got, does call he landline and cuss she (McDonald) up,” Fiona said.
According to McDonald, she was with her fiancé but the woman he was having an affair with would constantly call her and curse her. “I was with him for the past month. Wednesday, he told me that he had some business to transact over the river (West Coast Demerara) and he ask me to go by his sister and spend five days but I didn’t want to go.”
“He was determined for me to leave for five days. He then left home and tell me to go so I left like 02:00pm on Wednesday and I went by his sister. Later that day we called his landline but nobody answered until we got the call this morning (yesterday).”
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