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Man dies trying to recover stolen car mirrors
The bravado of a 37-year-old auto electrician cost him his life when he tried to intercept members of a spare parts thieving gang on Sunday night.
Jagdeo Thakurdeen, called ‘Blondie’, of Django Town, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was hurled from a car after he had jumped onto its bonnet in an attempt to apprehend the persons who had stolen the mirrors off his friend’s vehicle.
His body was discovered lying on the Good Hope Railway Embankment around 22:00 hours, next to the crashed car from which he was hurled. This was after a high speed chase.
The wrecked car that Thakurdeen was clinging to before he was killed.
Thakurdeen had been clinging to the bonnet of the car from La Bonne Intention a few miles away.
Initially, the police began treating the matter as a simple fatal accident, yesterday.
According to the police, “About 21:55 hours Sunday, June 30, 2013, Jagdeo Thakurdeen, 37, of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was struck down by a motor car as he was walking along the Good Hope Railway Embankment. He was pronounced DOA at the GPHC. The driver abandoned the motor vehicle and fled the scene. He has not yet been arrested. Investigations are in progress.”
But several persons including Thakurdeen’s reputed wife gave a different account of how he met his death, an account that points to a deliberate act on the part of the driver of the car.
The account is reminiscent of the scenario surrounding the death of bank employee Sheema Mangar, who was killed by a car while trying to retrieve her stolen cellular phone.
Thakurdeen’s reputed wife, Kavita Bowanideen, was sitting on the road next to Thakurdeen’s body when this newspaper arrived on the scene around 23:00 hours.
She steeled herself to relate the sequence of events that led to Thakurdeen’s demise.
The woman stated that she, Thakurdeen and her daughter along with two other friends, went to the creek on Sunday in the friends’ car.
While there, they saw the occupants of another car, whom they had known from their home village of Mon Repos.
They did not know that the occupants of the other car were members of a gang that stole mirrors from parked vehicles.
So after they had finished at the creek and were about to enter their car, Thakurdeen observed that the mirrors from their car had been stolen. They soon learnt from some other revelers that men from their home village were the culprits.
According to Bowanideen, since they knew where one of the culprits was living they proceeded to his home in LBI, East Coast Demerara later that night.
There they intercepted a car with one of the suspects inside.
Bowanideen said that Thakurdeen jumped in front of the car and forced the driver to stop.
“The boy pull off with the car, so the only thing Blondie could’a do was grab on to de front of de car. De man continue to drive with Blondie pon de bonnet,” Bowanideen explained.
Without thinking, her friends drove off behind the car leaving her stranded.
She later learnt that the car with her husband clinging to the bonnet was intercepted at Mon Repos but again the driver managed to speed away.
Kavita Bowanideen kneels beside Thakurdeen’s body as curious onlookers stare in horror.
The driver managed to elude his pursuers and by the time the car was seen again, it had crashed and Thakurdeen was lying motionless next to it on the Railway Embankment.
“He drive with he all de way from LBI pon he bonnet,” an eyewitness told this newspaper.
According to the eyewitness, the car was proceeding east along the Railway Embankment with someone on the bonnet, when it ran up on a mound of sand and the driver lost control.
“I thought dem just drunk and deh pon stupidness. Then I see dis car hit de sand and a man pelt up in de air; de car turn over and when we look we see a man lying down pon de ground. De driver run away,” the eyewitness told this newspaper.
Police later arrived on the scene and took possession of the car. They eventually recovered a large quantity of suspected stolen mirrors from inside. Several persons who were reportedly in the car while it was at the creek on Sunday have been detained. The driver however remains at large.
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