Two in custody
Two persons were taken into custody yesterday as investigations into last Friday’s death of a West Coast Berbice taxi service owner took a different turn following a post-mortem examination (PME).
Doulatram Singh
Initial reports were that Doulatram ‘Dara’ Singh, 35, of Experiment, Bath who owned the Timeless Taxi Service, had shot himself in his head around 2.30 pm while drinking with a friend at the Lai Li Jiu Jia Chinese Restaurant.
However, the results of the PME, conducted by Dr Vivakanand Brijmohan, proved that the injuries were not consistent with being self-inflicted, a source told this newspaper. As a result, the friend, who is an ex-policeman and a waitress were arrested yesterday.
Police said in a release that the cause of death was “laceration to the brain and fracture to the skull due to gunshot injury.”
Singh’s employee, Neeta Persaud had told this newspaper that when she got to the scene she enquired what had happened and a waitress at the restaurant had told her that her employer had been playing with a gun when he accidentally pulled the trigger. However, his wife, Christine, had said that her husband did not own a gun.
Reports are that the friend had left Singh, a father of four, and gone go to the washroom and while there he reportedly heard an explosion. He had claimed that upon checking he realized that the man had shot himself.
The man’s wife, Christine Singh, who was inconsolable, told this newspaper that she and her husband had no problems and had questioned why he would want to kill himself.
The 64K question is Why?
indeed, I want to know why also. Does not seem friend had a relationship with wife and stands to inherit. So, why?
There is still more to this story, so I will wait before I say another word.
Did the suppose friend had any problem with the deceased? Pressure/squeeze would bawl what they know.
The waitress would screel so fast!
from the very fisrt time i read the story i said to my self the freind and waitress should be taken into custody…..the truth will come out soon….with pressure on the waitress not torture..please…just mere pressure…..
‘THE SO CALLED FRIEND WAS IN THE WASHROOM, HEARD EXPLOSION, CAME OUT, UPON CHECKING HE DISCOVERED THAT THE MAN SHOT HIMSELF’ WHO THE HECK IS HE TO DETERMINE THAT THE GUY SHOT HIMSELF? HOW DID HE KNOW IT WASNT THE WAITRESS WHO SHOT HIM?
HOPE THE WAITRESS REALISES THAT SHE IS IN THE WRAP FOR CAPITAL MURDER. WAITRESS, U GOING DOWN IF U DONT SPEAK THE TRUTH… AS PER THE FRIEND CLAIMS HE WAS IN TEH WASHROOM WHICH LEAVES U AS THE MAIN SUSPECT….
U DUMB FOOL!!!!!!!!
Two people were there at the time of the tragic incident according to the reports. For the sake of the four children whom “Dara” has left, let someone be courageous enough to speak the truth what really happened for every action has its consequences. It’s a tragedy this family will have to live with. Very sad indeed! What can we do to help.
Could robbery be the motive?
Like they say in JA something ina something. Get down to the bottom of this one cause it stinks.