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Taxi driver murder… Ranks visited location where victim’s body was dumped – Police witness
Police Detective Jermaine Landry told the court, yesterday, that accused murderer, Balram Singh, took investigators to the spots, where the body of slain taxi driver, Bhomeshwar Sukdeo, was dumped.
Slain taxi driver, Bhomeshwar Sukdeo
Sukdeo’s charred remains were identified on the Mocha Arcadia access road days after he had gone missing. Reports were that the deceased was murdered after his car was stolen. He had been shot in the head and burnt. The incident occurred between January 19 and January 27, 2010.
Singh, of Agricola, Greater Georgetown, was subsequently arrested. He had allegedly admitted to selling Sukhdeo’s car to a taxi service in Grove, East Bank Demerara. He is facing a trial before Justice Navindra Singh and a mixed 12-member jury at the Georgetown High Court.
Yesterday, Detective Landry told the court that after his arrest, Singh took investigators to areas where the victim’s body was discarded.
Landry was called to the stand by State Prosecutor Narissa Leander. According to him, Singh had taken police ranks to a dam and pointed them to the place where the taxi driver’s body was first dumped.
At the home of the accused, the investigators unearthed a yellow and black bicycle and receipts from Courts and an auto sales dealership.
Landry said that the accused told the ranks that he sold Sukdeo’s car and purchased the bicycle with some of the money he acquired.
The detective said that Singh later led them to Eccles Industrial Site, and to Mocha access road. The officer said that at Eccles, the accused pointed out a spot where he said, the body was first dumped, but at Mocha access road, the man pointed to an area on the northern side of the road, where he said the body was finally disposed of.
The officer told the court that he also observed that sections of the bushes, on the northern side of the road, were burnt.
Under cross examination, by Attorney Jermiane Jervis, the policeman maintained that he had been truthful to the court.
He also noted that no threats were issued or inducement offered to Singh, during this time. Landry said that the accused freely and voluntarily gave the information to the police. In response to questions by the Defence Attorney, the witness specified that Singh was never assaulted or forced to tell the police anything.
He said that there was no blood or prints at the locations where the accused had taken the investigating ranks. Following the testimonies from the witnesses yesterday, Prosecutor Leander indicated to the court that the State has one more witness to call.
Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh is expected to take the stand, when the trial resumes on Monday.
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