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Body of abducted Sophia man…Suspect held after eyewitness claims she recognized his voice

Jan 22, 2016 News

Police have detained an acquaintance of suspected murder victim Akeem Culley, after being told that his voice was similar to that of one of the men who abducted Culley from his Sophia home last December.
An eyewitness supplied this information to investigators, who were also told that the same detained man and others had threatened Culley about a motorcycle that they claimed he had sold.
The suspect and Culley share the same first name. He is also from Sophia and has reportedly denied any involvement in Culley’s death.
Kaieteur News understands that investigators had also detained the slain man’s reputed wife, Candacy Duncan, but released her yesterday.
Culley, 23, of North Sophia, was dragged from his home by a group of masked individuals on December 30.
On Tuesday, his decomposed body was found in a trench a short distance from his residence, after residents detected a foul smell emanating from the main canal aback of North Sophia.
Duncan said that she last saw Culley alive on Tuesday December 30, 2015.  She alleged that at around 01.00 hrs, someone who identified himself as ‘Akeem’ knocked on her door and said he had something to tell her.
Thinking that the individual was a neighbour with a similar name, she opened the door, only to be confronted by a man with a gun.
“Same time me boy come out de room and dem say look he deh. One hug him and de other hold on pun him. One of dem stab him; I hear him grunt when he get stab,” Duncan said.
Culley’s reputed wife claimed that she then heard two gunshots, but by the time she rushed outside to follow her husband, the men were gone.
Duncan suspects that Culley’s disappearance had something to do with a motorcycle he was accused of stealing. According to her, a group of men had accused her partner of stealing a motorcycle. She said that the men had been searching for him and had even subjected her brother to a sound beating over the motorbike.
Duncan claimed that the matter was reported to the police and had been under investigation when Culley went missing.
A post mortem is to be conducted on the remains today.

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