Latest update April 11th, 2025 9:20 AM
Two teenagers in court today for Lusignan taxi driver murder
Two teenagers will be arraigned before a Magistrate charged with the murder of their fellow villager, 17-year-old
Murdered:
Dhanraj Latchman
Lusignan taxi driver, Dhanraj Latchman.
Latchman’s body was discovered last Friday in a cane field aback of Parika, East Bank Essequibo, two days after he was hired by the two suspects.
The car he was driving, a Toyota Carina 212, was found in the same Parika backlands the day before.
The two suspects, Shazim Alli, 18, and Aswraf Alli, 17, who are cousins, had confessed under intense interrogation to killing Latchman and they eventually led investigators to where they had dumped his body.
The two men who reside just two streets away from the victim, told investigators that they killed Latchman after their plan to steal his car went awry.
They claimed that they had used one of the seat belts from the victim’s car to strangle him.
A post mortem examination which was performed on Latchman’s body yesterday gave the cause of death as asphyxiation due to compound injury to the neck, which is consistent with being strangled.
“We have already read the charge to them…we have already received the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions,” a senior police officer told this newspaper yesterday.
Police had detained the teens on Thursday morning after Latchman’s mother, Lynette Daby, informed ranks that her son had called the names of his two passengers.
Initially, the suspects had given investigators conflicting reports regarding their last encounter with Latchman.
They eventually admitted that they strangled the teen and had planned to sell his white Toyota AT 212, bearing registration number, PMM 9823.”It seems that they had their eyes on this man’s car for some time now, and
The two suspects.
after they found a buyer, they hired him (Latchman) and told him they were going to collect money at Parika,” a source close to the investigation told Kaieteur News.
According to the mother, the now dead Latchman was at the family’s Lusignan, East Coast Demerara home last Wednesday afternoon when he suddenly informed her that he was going to Parika to transport passengers.
“About five o’clock, I called my son and asked him where he was and he said that he in Parika. I called him again around eight o’clock and he said that he was still at Parika and he leaving just now, so I asked him who he with, and he called their names,” Lynette Daby said.
“He recently get his licence, so I does call him steady to make sure everything is okay with him,” the mother had informed this newspaper.
According to the woman, after Latchman failed to return home around 22:00hrs, she and her husband went to the homes of the men whom her son had left to transport.
“When we went to one of them house, he didn’t want to come out. His mother had to force him to come out and when he did, he say that he don’t know where my son is. Then he say that my son left to go to Enmore,” the mother said.
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