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Murdered taxi driver’s car found at Mahaicony
-suspect reportedly fled to Suriname
Exactly three weeks after he disappeared and a week after his decomposing body was discovered in a
Dead taxi driver
Colin Clarke
trench, taxi driver Colin Clarke’s missing Toyota Allion motor car has been found.
Kaieteur News understands that except for two missing licence plates, the car was found intact last Friday under a house at Perth, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara. A man and a woman who occupy the house are assisting with the investigations. However police are not treating them as suspects; instead they are looking for a man whom they say they are very interested in.
Clarke, who was operating his car at the Vreed-en-Hoop Car Park, disappeared on November 27. His body was later found on December 3, in a trench at Uitvlugt.
A police source informed that the man at whose house the car was found, told investigators that a man fitting the description of the prime suspect, had brought the car to Mahaicony and had asked him to keep it.
The man said that he did not suspect anything at first, since the man who is known to him told him that he was heading to neighbouring Suriname and would be back in a few days to collect the car.
But after weeks passed and the man failed to return to collect the car, the homeowner became suspicious and contacted the police.
When police searched the vehicle they found Clarke’s driver’s licence inside the car and immediately they made the connection.
The police were also able to ascertain that Clarke did not go down without a fight, since there is reported evidence that the man who stole his car was wounded.
According to the source, investigators were told that the suspect had what appeared to be a sutured wound on his left hand.
Police West Demerara Commander Stephen Mansell had assured Clarke’s family that justice will be served in the matter, and detectives on the West Side are now collaborating with their counterparts from the East Coast Demarara as they intensify their probe.
Investigators are now trying to establish if Clarke’s murder has any connection to that of another West Demerara taxi driver.
Clarke’s disappearance occurred exactly one month after Shurland Dalloo went missing.
Dalloo’s body was found one week after he went missing and was found in a canal at Onverwagt, Number 27, West Coast Berbice, a few miles from where Clarke’s car was recovered.
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 West Coast Demerara, but was based at Parika. His car, 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.
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