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Mother identifies body found at Ogle Access Road
The body of 17-year-old Bahker Azeez, of 129 Third Street Montrose, East Coast Demerara, was identified by his mother who really did not know what to expect when she visited the Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday morning in search
Young Azeez’s grandfather, Abdool Kadair, mother Bibi Azeez and sister, Shaivannie Singh are still shocked at the death of their relative.
of her missing child.
The woman, Bibi Azeez, was unaware that harm had befallen her son until she received word Tuesday evening that he may have been murdered.
The mother told Kaieteur News that her son lives with his grandfather at Montrose. She lives two villages away at Mon Repos. She said the last time she saw her son was on Saturday morning when he visited to ask for some money. Azeez said she did not have the money at the time but promised her son that she would send it over in a taxi later in the day.
However, the woman said that she did not hear from him again. She said that on Tuesday evening she received a phone call from her son-in-law who asked whether she was watching the news. Azeez said that her son-in-law informed her that her son had died and that it was showing on the television. The woman said that she travelled to the city early yesterday morning to ascertain the truth of the information.
An officer from the Sparendaam Police Station accompanied her to the hospital morgue, and it was there that she said she made the heartbreaking discovery. “I didn’t know what to do. It was my son. I started crying and screaming until they put me out of the morgue.”
Azeez said that she heard that her son had been stabbed but the post mortem will not be done until Friday.
Shaivannie Singh said that she and her younger brother lived with their grandfather, Abdool Kadair. She said she last saw her brother Sunday night; he was not seen on Monday and Tuesday. “I didn’t take it for anything, because he would usually hang out.” She explained that on a few occasions her brother was held by the police for “liming” so she thought maybe that was the case.
Sixty-one -year-old Kadair said he last saw his grandson on Monday evening, the day he was allegedly killed. The man explained that late Monday afternoon he was “liming” with his grandson at the gate of the property.
He said that a young man of Amerindian descent was riding a bicycle and his grandson stopped to talk to him before he rode off.
The grandfather said that he left to have a bath, and when he returned, young Azeez was riding the said bike.
The grandfather said he again left his grandson on the street and returned to his house. About 18:00hours that evening he saw his grandson come down the staircase well dressed with a shirt, jeans and sneakers.
Kadair said that he had a short conversation with him but he did not ask the teen where he was going, and the teen did not say anything.
Young Azeez got on the bicycle which he had parked in the yard and left. Sometime later, the grandfather said, the teen returned wearing just his vest and pants. “But while he going up de stairs I hear he on he phone, ‘I can’t mek it now man, nah now”.
He said the teen went up the stairs, came back down and left the yard.
The family is at odds as to who would have wanted to harm their young relative. Kadair said, at home, his grandson was not troublesome, but that he could not speak for the streets. The sister said that her brother has a few friends; most of those they knew are from the area and they usually stay at the gate when they come to her brother.
Young Azeez last worked at an auto shop at Sparendaam and may have had friends there, but the family could not say what the teen was doing at Ogle Access Road where his body was found.
Young Azeez, who is also known as Andy, was found with what appeared to be stab wounds on Monday evening around 20:30 hours. He had the name of some four persons tattooed on his chest. Two of those names turned out to be his mother and sister. His alias was tattooed on the fingers of his right hand.
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