Mother of murdered fisherman seeks public help with finding killers

May 14, 2017 News

With her son’s first death anniversary approaching, the mother of murdered fisherman, Salman Khan, is pleading with the public for assistance with capturing his killers.

Salman Khan

During a televised interview, a grieving Bibi Khan said that her son’s killers are still out there and that “these people walking in front of me that killed my son.”
She is pleading with the public to report to police any information that could lead to the prosecution of those responsible.
Salman Khan, of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, went missing on July 9, 2016 one day after he returned home from sea. His body was discovered with multiple chops the following day at a bus shed in Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara.
He was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital before being transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he succumbed.
Police believed that the 21-year-old fisherman might have been beaten and chopped during a robbery by persons known to him.
“I calling on the police, if they could just help me to find these people (her son’s killers) let me get justice for my son. Me need justice for my son. Me can’t stay without my son,” the older Khan cried. The woman disclosed that she has become frustrated with the tardiness in investigations.
Initially, police had arrested three individuals from Tuschen since they were last seen consuming alcohol with Salman Khan on July 9, 2016.
Kaieteur News understands that the fisherman had returned from sea on July 8, 2016 and went to discharge the vessel the next morning. It was reported that the younger Khan later left home to go and collect money from his boss.
However, after he failed to return home at a certain time his mother called his phone at around 21:000hrs and he told her that he was with his boss and would be home shortly. But Salman Khan never returned home and calls to his phone went unanswered.
His mother then called his boss who told her that the young man left in a taxi with $150,000.
”When dem boys go to collect their money, the boss man does buy some beers for them to drink. The boss said that he send my son home in a taxi,” the woman had stated.
A missing person’s report was filed at the police outpost where they were told that police had picked up two young men Saturday night after they were involved in an argument with some other people. Salman Khan went to the station and bailed the young men out. The two boys, Khan and two other boys were then seen drinking at the rum shop opposite the police station.
Based on reports, the missing man’s family went to the West Demerara Regional Hospital and was told that an unidentified man was taken there Sunday night but was transferred to the GPHC.
It was there that Khan’s brother identified his body in the mortuary.

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