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Timehri backlands murder… Driver who picked up man with missing boot led cops to killer

Feb 19, 2014 News

 
An alert taxi driver who picked up a “trembling” passenger with a missing boot is the individual who led police to the man who allegedly raped and strangled Savitri Palmer on Saturday night in the Timehri backlands.
The driver, who works at the Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara junction, said that sometime between 07: 00 hrs and 08.30 hrs on Sunday, he received a call to pick up a passenger by the ‘loam pit’, located some 100 metres from Dakara Creek.
“I went to the area to pick up the guy, but I didn’t see anyone, so I called back the number,” the driver recalled. He said that shortly after, a heavy-set man approached and told him that the customer would be ready in about five minutes.
According to the driver, shortly after another man, whom he recognized, emerged from a ‘valley’ and entered the taxi.
“He entered the car and I noticed that his left boot was on but only his sock was on the right side. I also noticed that he was nervous…he was trembling.” The driver told Kaieteur News that he recognized the “dark, dougla fellow”, who worked at a sand pit on the Soesdyke/Linden highway.
The driver said that his passenger asked to be taken to the same sandpit where he worked and he took him there. However, when they arrived, the man reportedly informed the driver that he didn’t have any money.
“He said that he has to get money to pay me but his boss was not there. I left it at that; I told him that whenever he see me again he can pay me.”
Afterwards, the driver took another customer to Yarrowkabra, and it was then that he received a call from another colleague who informed him that Savitri Palmer’s body had been found near the Timehri racing circuit.
The driver said that he immediately thought of the nervous passenger that he had picked up earlier in the day, not far from where Palmer’s nude body was found. According to the man, he immediately returned to the scene, where he observed police ranks scouring the area for clues.
The driver then told one of the ranks about the passenger that he had picked up and took them to the sand pit where he had dropped off the customer. Although the suspect was not there, residents located him shortly after, tied him up and handed him over to the police, and the driver positively identified him at the Timehri Police Station. He was told that police retrieved a ring belonging to the murdered Mrs. Palmer from one of the suspect’s pockets and also found the alleged killer’s boot-lace at the scene of the murder.
According to the police, the suspect confessed to sexually assaulting and strangling Mrs. Palmer with his boot-lace. A post mortem verified that death was due to strangulation and that the victim’s neck was also broken.
The suspect is likely to appear in court today.
From all indications Palmer, a mother of two, of Loncke’s Avenue, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, was raped and strangled on Saturday night, by a young sand pit employee whom she had offered a lift.
The woman’s eight-year-old son was found sleeping in the rear seat of her abandoned taxi hours later by her husband Kissoon Palmer, who had decided to search for her after she went missing.
The car, a silver grey Toyota Carina 212, PPP 2183, was parked several yards from where her body was dumped.

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