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Manager confesses to killing truck driver
Dead, Pitamber Sharma
Kaieteur News – A manager employed with BK Quarries reportedly confessed to strangling a truck driver at their worksite last Wednesday and dumping his body into the Mazaruni River, Region Seven.
He reportedly told investigators that the dead man identified, as Pitamber Sharma, 69, of Independence Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD), had threatened to complain to their superiors that he (the manager) was not doing his job properly.
The manager, in his confession, said that he was afraid that if Sharma complained, then most likely he would be replaced by him (Sharma).
Angered at the fact that he might lose his position, the manager said that he attacked Sharma and choked him to death. After Sharma died, he then dragged his body and dumped it into the river.
Kaieteur News was told that the manager was one of two persons that police had recently detained in connection with Sharma’s death.
Confirming that the suspect confessed to heinous act was Commander of the Region Seven District, Dion Moore. The Commander said that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali Hack, SC, has since advised that the manager be charged with murder. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday.
Sharma was reportedly killed some time after 18:00hrs last week Wednesday. He had left his home on the West Bank of Demerara earlier that day for work duties at the Region Seven location and had arrived there close to 18:00hrs.
He reportedly called his family and told them that he was safe. The following day, his body was found around 07:20hrs floating in the vicinity of his company’s security base.
It was initially suspected that he had fallen into the river and drowned but an autopsy conducted on his body proved otherwise.
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