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Body of missing taxi driver found at Berbice
The almost one-week search for 33-year-old taxi driver Sherland Dalloo ended at around 06.30 hrs yesterday, when his body was found in a canal at Onverwagt , No 27, West Coast Berbice.
Sources said that the fully clad and decomposing remains were found in a desolate area that is accessible by dam, about three and a half miles off the West Berbice Public Road.
While police were unable to immediately ascertain the cause of death, there are indications that the victim’s skull was bashed in.
Police said that a brother of the victim managed to identify the remains by a yellow T-shirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots that the victim was clad in.
Police believe that the taxi driver was taken to the location and slain sometime between Thursday and Friday.
His corpse was then dumped into the canal and covered with weeds.
According to investigators, they received an anonymous call at around 07:00 hrs yesterday from a farmer grazing his cows about a body floating in a trench.
Murdered: Sherland Dalloo
But the body is believed to have been first seen by some villagers who were hunting iguanas in the back lands.
They became aware of the stench and upon checking saw the body under some weeds in the canal.
Police journeyed to the area and recovered the badly decomposed corpse which they had initially thought to be headless.
However, police have been unable to locate the slain man’s car, a silver- grey 212 Toyota Carina.
Detectives are said to be examining a vehicle that was torched in the same area a few days ago.
Police are also going over security camera footage of vehicles that would have crossed the Demerara Harbor Bridge on the day that Dalloo vanished.
It is alleged that Dalloo left home at around 07:30hrs on Monday, October 26, to solicit passengers at Parika.
His mother, Bhanmatty Dalloo, had told Kaieteur News that at around lunchtime she called Sherland to inform him that lunch was ready. However, she said that he informed her that he had to transport a passenger to Georgetown.
Bhanmatty Dalloo said that she again called her son around 14:30 hrs but he said that he was still in the city with his passenger.
He was still not home by late afternoon, the woman recounted. Another call at 17:30 hours went unanswered.
Subsequent calls to her son’s cellular phone went to voicemail.
“No matter what he does, he always calls and let me know or at least answer he phone when I call…so I feel something bad happen to he,” she had said.
Dalloo’s mother said she later learnt that a bus driver had told police that he had passed Dalloo in his parked taxi in Flour Mill Road Street, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
The “bus driver” she disclosed, said that he noticed two other persons in the car with her son.
According to this report, Dalloo called out and also signaled to the bus driver. But the friend reportedly assumed that Dalloo was just “hailing him up,” and didn’t stop.
“‘He said that the car de just park in the street…and the boy (the bus driver) said that he hear this boy shout for him but he didn’t stop because he had a lot of passengers in he bus.”
“Anytime me son pass any of he friends he does shout for them…you know hail them up; so the guy said that he didn’t tek it for nothing. Now he wondering if was some sign he de showing, and he seh me son shout two times to he.”
The bus driver reportedly later learned that Dalloo was missing.
“He said how this thing haunting he…he say he couldn’t sleep last night (Wednesday) because Sherland might’ve been calling him for help and he just passed him straight,” Bhanmatty Dalloo had said.
The body is at the Fort Wellington Hospital Mortuary and cops are hoping that a post mortem examination can be done as quickly as possible so as to determine the real cause of death.
Caption: Murdered: Sherland Dalloo
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