Two bikes went missing from home
The decomposing body discovered in the old pump station reservoir at Henry Street on Monday has been identified as that of 23-year-old Hassan Muhammad Ali Hussein.
Hussein, of Lot 345 Cummings Street, Albert-town, Georgetown, was discovered at about 12.30 pm with plastic stuffed in his mouth and up to yesterday afternoon police were still baffled about how the man’s body ended up there.
The man was identified by his older brother Muneshwar Narine yesterday at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour. Narine told this newspaper yesterday that he saw the article and photo of what appeared to be his brother’s body in the Kaieteur News and started to make enquiries. He was horrified when, in the presence of police, he confirmed that the body was Hussein’s.
Hassan Muhammad Ali Hussein
Stabroek News was told on Monday that persons would usually frequent the Henry Street area at night but several persons said that they believe the man was killed elsewhere and was dumped in the hole. It wasn’t until the foul smell of decay began emanating from the body that a man discovered it.
Hussein lived with his parents Abid Hussein and Gomattie Narine on Cummings Street. His parents reported that they had last seen him sometime around 8pm last Friday.
The man, according to them, had previously been away from home two nights at time but they would usually hear from him.
“We are suspecting that it is definitely foul play,” Abid Hussein said speaking on behalf of his family. “Hassan didn’t have a problem with anyone and I don’t know who would have done this to him.”
The elder Hussein explained that before they retired to bed last Friday night he’d spoken to his son and reminded him to lock up the house properly. Gomattie Narine told this newspaper that the last thing she told her son was that she’d bought some food and he should eat.
“We didn’t see or speak to Hassan after that,” his father reported. “It wasn’t until about 4 o’clock Saturday morning when his mother get up she said she didn’t see him and we later discovered that my bicycle and his bicycle were not in the yard.”
Abid Hussein said that they’d initially assumed that the young man and one of his friends had taken the bicycles out. However, by Saturday afternoon when they’d heard nothing from Hussein his mother went to the Alberttown Police Station and made a report.
“Police there said that they would look into the matter and keep us informed,” the distressed father said.
However, before the family could get any feedback from the police they discovered for themselves what had happened to Hussein, a carpenter. The man, according to relatives, usually hung out with his friends at home or around the Alberttown area and as far as they could tell he did not know anyone around the Henry Street area.
“I can’t tell you if he had a girlfriend,” the elder Hussein said, “because he never told us anything about that and he never brought any girl home to meet us.”
Gomattie Narine, trying to control her weeping, explained that her son didn’t have a cellular phone of his own and would normally use the one that belonged to her. However, that night he left without a phone and, according to the woman, he wouldn’t have had anything of great value on him.
Hussein is the second son to die for his parents in less than two months. An older brother, his father explained, passed away almost six weeks ago of “natural causes”. Abid Hussein and his family are hoping that police will be able to discover what happened to the young man.
“Right now we are all in shock because we just don’t know what could’ve happened,” Abid Hussein told this newspaper. “All we can do now is wait and see what the police can tell us.”
Police, up to late yesterday afternoon, had not issued a statement concerning Hussein’s death. The man’s father pointed out that neither of the bicycles has been found. He believes that wherever the bicycles are located there will be some clue as to what happened to Hussein.
The same refrain is always heard after every murder “he/she was a quiet person and did not have trouble with anyone and nobody can understand how the victim met such an untimely end.” It reminds me of the saying “the fisherman never says his fish is rotten.” I’m happy you have been identified and a proper burial can result. My sympathy and sincere condolences go out to your grieving family. I am certain we have not seen the last of these gruesome and senseless murders. Rest in peace Hassan.
Another young life wasted in the land of milk and honey,the leaders have to seriously address this issue.We would not have a labor force in years to come.The youths are the future of any nation,if the youths are dying out before reaching their potentials the nation is bound to suffer in the long run.Morals and ethics need to be the moral fiber of the society.Parents have to step up to the plate teach, them right from wrong.Set an example, no matter how tough things are.
what labour force, when every one is calling for jobs.
only job they want is “quick money job” go figure that with the related death/crime.
freespeech, sometimes i get the impression that you are a person without spine. regardless of what you parrots continue to repeat, because that’s all parrots do, the pee pee pee is responsible for the deteriating state of affairs in guyana. talk about people with no shame; see the pee pee pee.
Only the good die young Borapork so it could be true that he was a nice quiet person with no enemies. You and I now, well we will live for a long time.
you forgot to mention the other part of teh parable.. the good die young and the bad has to live long to punish & pay for their sins & deeds that’s y they die old.. lol
My heart goes out to the family of Muhammad Hassan … Who feels it knows it… about a month ago the same thing happened to my cousin Ryan Sattaur.It was a major shock and trust me whoever is responsible for doing this will pay greatly… RIP Muhammad…
Parents you have my deepest sympathy , don’t get confused ,your son would not lend the other bicycle to a complete stranger , it has to be one of his close friends who he usually lent it to ,get the names and give it to the police , here is where you can help to find who killed your son , people in the area can help to identify as to he and who was seen riding away from home or along the streets, this is the info the police will need and we can all help to make our country safe.
i know its a fallacy to call someone a crass according to logics. never-the-less, i will call the pee pee pee a crass. all this killing and disrespect amongst guyanese was never this perverse. we had our differences but we never sunk to where we were killing each other. i know the nay sayers will say otherwise but unless they can debunk this fact, they need to stay quite.
Listen people we need to stop the blame game,Guyana has gotten to point of no return.What we need is to slow our expansion and take care of the serious problem of drugs, murders, unemployment,lack of discipline,low morals,alcoholic women and men,domestic violence.Once we get our country under control we can then move on to bibber and better.
NO Hope for the young people in Randy Persaud’s Guyana.
Randy’s rose coloured glasses won’t allow him to see things like that? All he could see is american style restaurants and a bunch of people in the rum shops looking happy.
No question mark belong in that sentence. What’s the matter with you SN?
My condolences to this family,,,what a sad way to die…
Some people have nothing else to do but time to kill!
If time were all that they kill, what a happy world this would be!