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Taxi driver died from blows to head
Taxi driver Sherland Dalloo was clubbed in the head before being dumped in a canal in a remote section of Onverwagt, No 27, West Coast Berbice.
Dead: Sherland Adrian Dalloo
A post mortem examination conducted by Dr. Vivikandan Brijmohan revealed that Dallo died from shock and haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head.
However, police are still to track down Dallo’s killers or to ascertain the motive for his death.
The taxi driver’s decomposing remains were found at around 06.30 hrs on Sunday in a desolate area about three and a half miles off the West Berbice Public Road…
The victim was clad in a yellow T-shirt, blue jeans and Timberland boots. A brother of Dallo’s identified the remains from the clothing.
Police suspect that Dallo 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.
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.
The man’s car, a silver- grey 212 Toyota Carina motor car with number plate HB 8729.
A vehicle which was torched a few days before in the same area is being examined by detectives for any evidence. Investigators are also going over security camera footage of vehicles that would have crossed the Demerara Harbor Bridge on the day that Dalloo vanished.
It was reported 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.
The woman stated 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 and another call at 17:30 hours went unanswered.
Subsequent calls to her son’s cellular phone went to voicemail.
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 reportedly later learned that Dalloo was missing.
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