Grief enveloped a North Nootenzuil home early yesterday morning when a 74-year-old pensioner was discovered murdered aboard his family’s fishing boat, with the engine missing, near the Nootenzuil foreshore.
According to relatives, ex-fisherman Llewellyn Kissoon, also known as ‘Sea Tarzan’ of North Nootenzuil, East Coast Demerara left his home at 5 pm on Monday. He was found dead aboard his family’s fishing boat yesterday morning by his son Arnold Kissoon.
When this newspaper arrived at the scene yesterday shortly after 8 am, members of the Joint Services were already present and efforts were being made by relatives and members of the community to move the boat, which had drifted a short distance out to sea, closer to shore.
Kissoon’s body, covered with a mixture of blood and mud, was removed from the boat by members of the Joint Services team and relatives. As the body was being fetched to shore, relatives began to wail, while curious members of the community stood looking on. One resident remarked that he couldn’t believe that such a thing had happened in “this peaceful place”.
Rope of half-inch width could be seen wrapped around Kissoon’s neck and his body was in an awkward position resulting from his hands and feet being tied together with the same rope. A wound was discovered on the dead man’s head.
There was also a deep track in the soft mud of the sea bank which relatives suspect was left when the boat’s engine was being dragged to shore by the culprits.
Arnold Kissoon said his father usually went out at night to guard the boat and its engine. The distressed man said he and his brother were supposed to leave for sea yesterday morning, so at 6 am he went out to get the boat. “I call he and I ain’t hear anyone answer,” Arnold said. “I went closer to see why he ain’t answer and I notice the boat’s engine was missing, then I find he dead.”
Kissoon leaves to mourn his wife Radikah Kissoon, 13 children, grandchildren and many relatives and friends.
His 70-year-old widow was in shock when this newspaper visited her home a short distance away from the scene of the murder. “
