PM confirms strangulation in Chinese businessman's murder

PM confirms strangulation in Chinese businessman’s murder

Aug 17, 2017 News

Dead: Lian Jiang

The 44-year-old businessman, whose bound body was found in his Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) restaurant last Thursday, was strangled.
A post mortem examination performed on the remains of Liyan Jiang at the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour yesterday showed that he died from strangulation, cerebral haemorrhage and asphyxiation.
No one has been arrested for the businessman’s murder.
Jiang’s body was discovered in the bathroom area of his Paradise Chinese Restaurant at Tuschen around 22:00 hrs Thursday last.
It is believed that the businessman was murdered sometime after 03:00 hrs on Thursday, since he had been gambling online and had left around that time to check on a noise he heard. The father of two never returned to his computer to continue his game. He had been running the restaurant by himself while his wife, Lan, was running another restaurant at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
The businessman was found gagged, and his hands tied behind his back with a phone charger. His feet were also tied. No blood was found at the scene, but there were marks of violence on the victim’s body. His right cheek was swollen and the entire house was ransacked.
The killers gained entry into the restaurant by removing louvre panes from a bathroom window and then breaking the grill. There was a chair next to the window, indicating that the men left the same way they entered. The restaurant does not have cameras.
The victim’s wife told the police that she last spoke with her husband around 22:00 hrs on Wednesday. When she did not hear from him on Thursday, she called his phone but it went to voicemail.
The woman then asked a male friend in the area to check on him. When the individual went to check, he called several times but did not get a response. Upon entering the building, the friend noticed the restaurant door was partly open and immediately went to the Tuschen Outpost, and returned to the scene with ranks.
When they entered the building, the police observed that the place was ransacked and shortly after, they found the body.

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