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Ex-con, two others killed Soesdyke remigrant
– bank card, vehicle recovered
A 28-year-old ex-convict and two others killed 60-year-old remigrant Anthony Breedy, whose bound body was found in his Hill Foot, Soesdyke home on Monday.
Dead: Anthony Breedy
The killers then made off with Breedy’s Sport
Utility Vehicle (SUV) and other valuables.
But the ex-convict’s luck ran out yesterday, when police arrested him on the East Coast of Demerara, shortly after he had stashed the stolen vehicle.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum revealed that the suspect was still carrying Mr. Breedy’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card when he was held.
The Crime Chief also said that police recovered the victim’s vehicle at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara.
The detained man is Paul Goriah, of Timehri Squatting Area. He was recently released from prison following a break and enter and larceny and narcotics conviction. His alleged accomplices, who are still at large, are also from the same Timehri squatting community.
Blanhum said that the suspect is cooperating with investigators, while police continue to hunt for the other suspects.
The body of the 60-year-old agriculturist was found at around 11:00 hours on Monday in the lower flat of his two-storey house. His limbs were bound and he bore injuries to his head and his home was ransacked.
Kaieteur News understands that scratches on the detained ex-convict indicate that the victim put up a desperate fight for his life. At press time, police were planning to have the injuries examined by a physician.
From information investigators have gathered, the intruders killed Mr. Breedy last Saturday night. Police said that there was no sign of forced entry to the premises.
They then took the murdered man’s SUV and other valuables to an area at South Ruimveldt, where they split up the loot. The ex-convict, Paul Goriah, reportedly told his accomplices that he would sell the vehicle at Berbice. Unknown to his accomplices, he also stashed the dead man’s ATM card.
But the plan reportedly unraveled yesterday after the ex-convict stashed the stolen vehicle.
He reportedly then hired a taxi to take him out of the area. However, an argument reportedly broke out between the suspect and the taxi driver when he was unable to pay the fare.
The suspect reportedly smashed the rear windscreen of the driver’s car.
Police then arrested the suspect and found Mr. Breedy’s bank card on his person.
The slain man’s sister, Yvette Breedy, had told Kaieteur News that she last spoke to him on Saturday.
She said that she received a call on Monday from someone who told her that there was a robbery at her brother’s house and they should check on him. Anthony Breedy lived alone.
“Somebody went to see him and saw the house open. When they called they got no response. When they pushed the door and went in, they saw him lying on the floor tied up,” Yvette Breedy told this newspaper.
The woman said she is unaware that her brother had any problems with anyone.
Anthony Breedy was an agriculturist who returned to Guyana a year ago from Montserrat. He was reportedly farming on the plot of land he acquired in the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
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