THE LOCKED AND EMPTY SHACK

Nov 06, 2016 Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery

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We should know soon.
Maybe by now, you already know.
Maybe, even as this story is being published, they are checking the shack.
And, if they are checking the shack today, we will know if it hides a horrible mystery, or if it’s

just one more false lead.
Shawnette Savory’s relatives have been pleading for someone in authority to break into that empty shack, because they are convinced that they can finally find out what happened to her.
When a woman vanishes in Guyana, the way Savory vanished, the way Babita Sarjou and others before her vanished, it usually means one thing.
On August, 28, 2016, 37-year-old Shawnette Savory left her apartment at Lot 222 Last Street, Prospect, East Bank Demerara, to attend an uncle’s birthday party at Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
She reportedly then returned home.
On August 30, she left her apartment, where she lived alone, to pay her electricity bill. She returned home, only to go out again.
Days later, Shawnette’s landlady contacted the woman’s relatives to say that she had not seen her tenant for some time. The relatives tried contacting her via her cell phone, but all calls went unanswered.
Relatives filed a report at the Providence Police Station and at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary. They were reportedly told that they needed to provide more information for the police to work with.
A relative who checked Shawnette’s apartment became even more concerned on realizing that the woman had only taken a small handbag with her. All of her belongings appeared to be intact, and even her phone charger was left behind.
And a sister insisted that Shawnette would call whenever she went out, and would never turn off her phone.
A boyfriend of the missing woman said that he spoke to her by phone about “three, four weeks” prior to her disappearance, and she had seemed “normal and happy.”
Relatives checked at hospitals, and even at mortuaries. At one point, some family members travelled to Wismar after receiving a call from someone who said that they had seen a person fitting Shawnette’s description crossing the Wismar Bridge.
However, CCTV footage revealed that the individual was not Shawnette. Then they began to receive calls from individuals who claimed that they knew of the missing woman’s whereabouts.
Some of the callers repeatedly told the relatives that Shawnette was being held against her will in a West Bank Demerara shack.
Relatives immediately went to the area to look for a ‘zinc house’ where they were told the woman was being kept. After hours of searching, they spotted a house which fit the description given to them by the anonymous caller.
It was a shack hidden away in an isolated area with a padlock on the door. No one was inside.
But the relatives claimed that when they informed the police, the ranks said that they could not enter the house without the proper authorisation.
Neighbours in the area were reportedly scared to talk since they claimed that the property is owned by “dangerous persons.” They even identified one of the occupants by an alias.
Some neighbours claimed that they had seen a woman, who matched Savory’s description, at the shack, and that she was in the company of a few men. They claimed that she was later moved from the location.
The anonymous calls continued again last week, with one individual insisting that Savory was in the padlocked shack. Again, police ranks said that they could not break into the property.
However, a senior police official has said that they are likely to check the building this week, or as early as today, once a resident of sound repute is present.
A relative of Ms. Savory should also be present to identify any items that may belong to her.
Meanwhile, however, they are upset that some individuals are calling with false information, that is only upsetting them further.
“There are people calling and telling us that they see her at this location and then they call back and say no not there, somewhere else. It’s happening very often and they have us going all over to look for her,” the relative said.
“What we are going through is not easy. No one can ever dream of going through this, so please think before you pick up that phone to say something negative,” the relative appealed.
They are however calling on persons, who have authentic information, to make contact with them or the police.
Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Shawnette Savory can contact relatives on telephone numbers 689-0107, 654-1536, 233-3699, 696-1870, or the nearest police station.

 
If you have any information about this or any other unusual case, please contact Kaieteur News by letter or telephone at our Lot 24 Saffon Street, Charlestown offices. Our numbers are 22-58465, 22-58473 and 22-58458. You need not disclose your identity.
You can also contact Michael Jordan at his email address mjdragon@hotmail.com.

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SEARCHING FOR RELATIVES OF SAILESH RATTAN RAMKISSOON

Michael Jordan is also seeking information about the whereabouts and possible fate of Sailesh Rattan Ramkisson. He reportedly once resided in Castello Housing Scheme, and grew up in Crabwood Creek.
Anyone with information about his fate may contact me at my email address: mjdragon@hotmail.com, or at phone numbers 22-58473 and 645-2447. You need not disclose your identity.

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