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Burnt body in car trunk… DNA results confirm victim is vanished eyewitness Collin Rodney
The burnt body that was found in a car trunk at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, on November 1, 2019, has been positively identified as that of vanished eyewitness Collin Rodney.
The burnt car that was found with a body in the trunk at Letter ‘T’ Mahaicony
Sources close to the case said that the Guyana Forensic Scientific Laboratory (GFSL) disclosed its findings yesterday when officials handed over the results of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to the police.
The results came from rigorous tests that were conducted on DNA samples that were taken from Rodney’s close relatives and from the remains two months ago.
This is the first completed DNA test that the GFSL has done.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) had already confirmed that the chassis number on the burnt vehicle matched Rodney’s car.
Police have not indicated whether they have made any headway in identifying any suspects in Rodney’s disappearance.
However, investigators believe that the last calls he received may be crucial to enabling them to find his killers.
Detectives have apparently ruled out reports that Rodney, 36, was abducted near his home. Kaieteur News understands that investigators have established that he had driven to the Rupert Craig Highway.
He was reportedly alone in his vehicle. It is believed that he was responding to a phone call he had received.
Rodney, along with his silver-grey Toyota Allion, vanished on October 25.
His vehicle, with his burnt remains in the trunk, was found in his car trunk at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara about a week later.
Rodney disappeared on the same day that he was scheduled to testify in the murder of his cousin, Marlon Seon Rodney, called ‘George’, who was gunned down last April in Norton Street, Lodge.
Thirty-nine-year-old Osafo Grundell, called ‘Safo’ of Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown and James Fraser, 21, called ‘Dab’ from Garnett Street, Georgetown, are charged with Marlon Rodney’s murder.
Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said that the police will seek to place other witnesses in Government’s Witness Protection Programme.
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