Taxi driver’s mutilated body found in Tuschen

Oct 19, 2014 News

Police are hunting for the killers of a 48-year-old taxi driver, whose body was found at around 23:30 hrs on Friday on

Dead: Abdool Hassan

Sheriff Street, Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo.
Abdool Hassan, a father of eight of Lot 2509, Tuschen Housing Scheme, was found lying in the street with several stab wounds to his neck. He was still clutching his car keys, and his vehicle, bearing registration number PGG 2410, was found in a nearby street.
Kaieteur News understands that Hassan had driven from the Tuschen Public Road at around 23:00 hrs on Friday, with a car load of passengers, to transport them into the community.
Investigators believe that someone lured him to the deserted Sheriff Street, where he was then robbed and slain. Hassan’s cellular phone and the money he would have made that night were missing.
“From the position his body was found in, we believe that he managed to get out of the car with his keys to seek help, but collapsed a short distance away,” a source told Kaieteur News.
The dead man’s daughter, Bibi Hassan, said that she was in bed when a man called out for her and said that something had happened to her father.
She immediately travelled to the location where the shocking discovery was made.
“When I reach I see him lying on the road with his car keys in his hand and his eyes were open… I called for him but I got no response,” a tearful Bibi Hassan related. She also observed what appeared to be several puncture wounds in his neck.
It was later reported that the father of eight was stabbed some 14 times. “They juk he up… the police said that they use a fine object to bore he.”
A devastated Ms. Hassan said that her father was a very peaceful person who never had problems with anyone.
She added that the 48-year-old man had been operating his taxi for a number of years

Hassan’s car

and had never been attacked or robbed.
Meanwhile, the taxi driver’s reputed wife of six years, Mala Mohabir, said that her husband left home at around 18:00 hrs on Friday.
The woman said that she was later informed of his death.
No one has been arrested as yet.
However, police are checking the dead man’s car for finger prints and other clues.