On the day he should have been reflecting on his life after being married for three years, the badly mangled body of a 25-year-old Linden taxi driver was discovered along the Mabura Road in Region Ten.
Edward Winfield of 279 Blueberry Hill, Wismar, Linden was found dead along the road leading to the interior. His body which bore several chop and stab wounds was discovered by one of his brothers early yesterday morning.
According to the man’s mother, she received a call from someone who said that her son’s car was seen parked on the Four Miles Mabura Road. She said she became worried since she had not seen her son for two days. “He does always come by cause he don’t live far from me and is two days now nobody ain’t see he,” she related.
His brother and a few other persons immediately went the area where the car was reportedly seen. The car was found intact but Edward was nowhere in sight. A search of the area led to the discovery of the mangled body across the road from where the car was parked.
The brother returned immediately to Linden and filed a report at the Mackenzie Police Station and ranks were dispatched to the location. Further investigations into the gruesome discovery revealed that Winfield was attacked and possibly killed in his bottom-flat apartment and then taken to where his body was found.
At his house it appeared that the assailant/s had entered his bedroom by removing several louvre panes and climbing in. The door to the man’s apartment was neatly padlocked and the police were forced to break in. Winfield’s bed was soaked with what appeared to be blood which also stained the window curtains and walls.
The occupants of the upper flat of the house said that they had not seen Winfield for the past two days. The said they did not hear any funny sounds or cries either over the past days or nights.
“Eddie is a man does gat nuff friends driving in and out all the time at all hours so it was hard to tell that something had gone wrong at any given time,” one neighbour said.
His mother said she had last seen her son on Boxing Night when they had attended a family function together. “Like my son know he was going to die,” she said. “I never see me son perform da kinda perform. He really dance da night and then he bring we home and he left and said he was going home and sleep and that was the last I heard or see my son.”
Winfield was one of the persons held by the Linden police in relation to the recent $7.6 million robbery at the Wismar Post Office. He was arrested and held for six days because it was believed that his car was used in the robbery.
On November 30 last year, two bandits armed with guns had robbed the Wismar Post office of the cash which was supposed to be used to pay old age pensions.
According to a police press release, at around 2.40 pm on that day, Postmistress Ramona Singh and seven other employees were attacked and robbed by the two masked men armed with handguns. The police said Singh and the employees were in the building when the robbers entered and held them at gunpoint. They were placed to lie on the floor and the assailants demanded the keys to the vault which were handed over. The men then opened the vault and took out $7,693,225, which was intended to pay pensioners, and escaped.
Winfield was the last of five children for his mother and though he was not living with his wife and two children aged 3+ and 2 years old, he had been married for three years. Yesterday he would have celebrated his third wedding anniversary. His sister was scheduled to be married yesterday also but due to unforeseen circumstances her wedding was postponed. According to neighbours, “it was a sign, only dat we only now see it.”
