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Decomposed body of missing taxi driver found
… with cable wrapped around neck
The partially decomposed body of missing hire car driver Colin Clarke, was found in the vicinity of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD), yesterday.
Dead: Colin Clarke
Clarke, popularly known as “Ole Boy” of Crane Housing Scheme, WCD, was last seen around 17:00 hours on Friday, in the area where he works.
Both the 55-year-old man and a silver-grey Toyota Allion motor car, HC 4993, which he operated, disappeared.
His sister, Maureen Clarke had noted that when she last saw her brother, he was wearing a brown shirt and black pants.
According to her, he would never go anywhere without informing his family members.
“As far as we know he didn’t have no problems with nobody… that’s why it so strange.”
The man’s family had expressed fear that he may have fallen prey to carjacking or that he might be dead.
Yesterday, residents of Uitvlugt on an early morning stroll detected a foul smell in the vicinity of a bridge. The villagers alerted the police, and soon after, Clarke’s decomposed body was pulled from beneath the bridge.
The dead man’s cousin, Michael Johnson, told Kaieteur News that relatives were contacted and they went to identify his body early yesterday morning.
“Since we ain’t see he turn up, we done prepare for the worse. The family holding up” Johnson said.
The man explained that his cousin was found with a brake cable around his neck.
“It look like he get strangle with the cable, cause part of he neck cut.”
The man noted too that the car has not yet been found.
Clarke resided with his sister (Maureen) and their 83-year-old mother. Family members told Kaieteur News that police had searched Vreed-en-Hoop and had found no trace of the car.
The man’s sister explained that the car is owned by her niece’s mother. Clarke would usually pick it up every morning from Sisters Village to carry out his daily work.
He would normally return the car around 19:00hours every day, but this did not happen on Friday.
The following day, the police were contacted and along with relatives, they began making enquiries about his whereabouts. Relatives had expressed hope of finding Clarke alive.
Kaieteur News understands that Clarke was hired on a “special” to transport a group of persons along the West Coast corridor. He was reportedly seen with the individuals shortly before he disappeared.
Clarke’s disappearance comes exactly one month after another taxi driver, Shurland Dalloo, went missing.
Dalloo’s body was found one week after he went missing in a canal at Onverwagt, Number 27, West Coast Berbice.
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. Dalloo also operated on the West Coast Demerara, but was based at Parika. His car, too, a silver grey Toyota Carina, has not been recovered.
Police believe that the taxi driver was taken to the location and slain.
His corpse with its head bashed in was then dumped into the canal and covered with weeds.
Meanwhile, police on the East Coast of Demerara are still searching for a silver grey Toyota Premio which was stolen from its owner last Saturday night at Bachelor’s Adventure.
This newspaper understands that the driver of the car, who hails from Mahaica, had picked up three men to take them to Bachelor’s Adventure, about seven miles away.
When the car reached Church Road, Bachelor’s Adventure, the men held up the driver and relieved him of the car.
Police are continuing their investigations into Colin Clarke’s death.
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