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Murder or accidental death?…Investigators to seek DPP’s advice on way forward in pensioner’s demise
Investigators are preparing a file to send to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice on
Dead: Wilfred Bacchus
the way forward in the case of 69-year-old Wilfred Bacchus, whose body was found in a trench at Coghlan Dam, Pourderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on March 6, last.
Initially, Bacchus’s death was being treated as a case of drowning but it became a murder investigation when a Post Mortem (PM) examination revealed that he died as a result of haemorrhage which is consistent with a fall or being struck in the dead with a heavy object.
After almost a month, investigators have failed to pinpoint anyone to the murder since neighbours and relatives have claimed that the pensioner was someone who was once loved by villagers and had no issue with anyone in the village.
Bacchus’s wife, Rosalyn Singh and children have refused to accept the fact that their loved one was murdered even as the PM showed that he did not drown. They are holding out that the 69-year-old man fell into the trench and drowned.
However, one of the victim’s siblings, is pushing investigators to question his relatives, the persons who refused to accept that he was murdered since one of them said that the pensioner had problems at home—serious issues.
“This man is saying that his brother was murdered and his (deceased) family is saying that they had no issue and that no one killed him but according to the PM, he might have been struck in the head with a heavy object,” one of the investigators revealed.
He said that they have questioned everyone who lived with the pensioner at Lot 38 Coghlan Dam and their story checked out.
“The only thing left for us to do is to question some boys who steal in the area but what we are looking at is that this man had nothing on him that anyone could have stolen and if you are from the area, you would know that,” the rank said.
Kaieteur News was informed that the pensioner’s body was found a few hours after he left his home to guard a house now being constructed not far from his home. He was under the influence of alcohol when he left to go to work.
The man’s son-in-law, Asgar Ali, said that he was heading to work and decided to call out for the pensioner but got no response.
”I went in the yard and look for him because normally when I pass around four in the morning and call, he does answer,” Ali said. He further explained that he went back home and informed his family that he did not see Bacchus at the premises.
”Everybody went back and searched, and then we went and report it (the man missing). When the police come, we went in the trench and search and we found his body,” Ali noted.
He added that there was blood on Bacchus’ head and hands but they never thought that someone had killed him.
”No one heard anything, so we don’t know what happen with him and this area is very quiet,” a neighbour said.
The victim’s wife said that her husband had been imbibing the night before he died. “I beg him not to go to work, but he insisted that he had to go.”
The woman said that her husband was a quiet individual who had no problem with anyone in the area. “He goes his way straight and come his way straight,” Singh said.
She noted that they were all shocked when they were informed that he had been killed.
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