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Teen held for Mabura shopkeeper’s murder
Police have detained a 19-year-old for the murder of Mabura businessman Colin Mc Lean, who was found in his home with several stab wounds on Sunday.
The teen, who hails from Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, was reportedly arrested at his home yesterday. Kaieteur News understands that the suspect has admitted to knowing 52-year-old Mc Lean.
Dead: Colin Mclean
Investigators have been told that the youth was seen leaving the shopkeeper’s premises at around 04.00 hrs on Sunday, shortly after residents heard someone screaming inside Mc Lean’s home.
A relative, who saw the body at the Linden Hospital, said that the shopkeeper had been repeatedly stabbed behind the head.
Mc Lean, of Lot 88 Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden, is believed to have been murdered at around 04.00 hrs on Sunday, when the lights in the community went off.
Mc Lean has been operating his food and beverage business at that location for the past 10 years.
This newspaper was informed that at around 04:00hrs, neighbours heard a loud scream and upon checking some hours later, found Mc Lean’s bloodied corpse. Relatives said that a quantity of cash and gold were missing.
Residents had spoken of seeing a suspicious “red-skin” man walking around in the community late Saturday. A taxi driver reportedly told investigators that he picked up the said “red-skin” individual from Mc Lean’s shop around 05:00hrs on Sunday.
“We hear that this man went talking over the phone that he did the job well in Mabura and the taxi man hear he and passed on the message to the police,” the slain man’s sister, Mavis McLean Thompson, said.
“He (my brother) called and say Colin get murder and I asked him if it is we Colin and he say yes and he hang up and left to go to Mabura,” the sister added.
She was told that customers visited her brother’s shop early on Sunday, but went to the Mabura Police Station after calling several times at the shop and getting no response.
“They see the place open and they know that he does done start prepare things and after they called and get no answer, they went to the police and when the police went into the place, they saw my brother lying on the bed,” the distraught sister said.
She added that neighbours provided investigators with details pertaining to the suspect who they claimed left Mabura minutes after Mclean was killed.
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