Taxi driver carjacking murder …Witness recalls accused made arrangement to sell car

Dec 08, 2015 News

Prosecution witness, Travis David, yesterday told the court that murder accused Balram Singh had met with

Dead: Bhomeshar Sukdeo

the owner of a taxi service to get rid of a car he claimed he had for sale.
Singh is on trial before Justice Navindra Singh at the Georgetown High Court for the murder of taxi driver, Bhomeshwar Sukdeo
Sukdeo was reportedly kidnapped and robbed of his vehicle before he was murdered.
His charred remains were identified on the Mocha Arcadia access road days after he had gone missing. He was allegedly shot in the head and burnt. The incident occurred between January 19 and January 27, 2010.
Reports are that the accused of Agricola, Greater Georgetown, admitted to selling Sukhdeo’s car to a taxi service in Grove, East Bank Demerara, following his arrest.
Yesterday, Travis David testified that in 2010, he was living at Agricola, East Bank Demerara, the same village in which the accused resided. The man told the court that during that time, he was working for a taxi service owned by Bharrat Narine on the East Bank Demerara.
The witness recalled that some time while working with the service, he met with the accused, who inquired from him whether his “boss man” does buy vehicles.
He said that Singh told him he had a car to sell but that it was in Berbice. David recounted that he had told the accused that the taxi service at that time, had five cars, but one had crashed.
He said that he eventually agreed to introduce Singh to his employer. David told the court that the accused later sold the car to his boss for $600,000.
However, in January 2010, the witness said that police arrested his employer, (Narine), the accused and himself. He said that they were taken in, for questioning about a stolen car and the disappearance and murder of a taxi driver. The man recalled that a confrontation was held between them.

Accused: Balram Singh

The witness detailed that Singh told the police in his presence, that he had shot the taxi driver and dumped his body at a dam. But the man said that he denied the accusations and his boss was there, to verify his story.
Defence Attorney, Jermaine Jervis, objected to the evidence which David led. The lawyer described the evidence as fresh and prejudicial. But his objections were overruled by the Judge.
David was called upon to testify in the trial by State Prosecutor Narissa Leander. The Prosecutor also called Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh to the witness box. Dr. Singh testified that the post mortem examination conducted on the body of Sukdeo proved inconclusive.
Earlier in the trial, Police Detective Jermaine Landry told the court that Singh took investigators to the spots, where the body of slain taxi driver was dumped.
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.