A disc jockey and a taxi driver accused of clubbing an overseas-based Guyanese to death were remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
It is alleged that between January 15 and 16, Amar “Buddy” Narine, 20 and Devindra “Buoy” Sukhdeo, 20, a taxi driver, both of Belmont, Mahaica murdered 49-year-old Abdool Hackeem Khan, a nurse of Queens, New York.
The men who were not required to plead to the indictable offence are scheduled to appear at the Mahaicony Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
A post-mortem examination performed yesterday on Khan’s remains proved that he died from brain haemorrhage due to multiple skull fracture.
According to reports, Khan who arrived at his mother’s home at Mahaica around 2.30 pm on Tuesday, dropped off his suitcase and went out to meet friends. He returned home at 8.30 pm and retired to bed.
Around 11 pm, after receiving a phone call, he collected the gate key from his brother’s house at the back and said a taxi was waiting for him. Relatives made a missing person’s report at the Mahaica Police Station around 5 pm on Wednesday and shortly afterwards police informed them that a body was found among a clump of bushes at Letter T, Mahaicony.
The police escorted the relatives to the Mahaicony station to give statements and later took them to the Lyken Funeral Home where they identified the body.
According to reports a wallet containing a quantity of US currency was reportedly missing from the dead man’s pocket and some of the money was later recovered from the home of the two accused.
Reports state that the back of Khan’s head and his ears were severely bashed in and his hip area was badly bruised, suggesting he had been dragged along the road.
