The man, suspected of killing police Special Constable Neibert Isaac-Bacon, turned himself in today at the Turkeyen Police Station in company of his attorney.
After being questioned in the presence of his lawyer, Maxwell McKay, the suspect was arrested and taken into custody.
Two nights after the Special Constable left work her partially decomposed body was discovered a short distance away from her `D’ Field, Turkeyen home in a drain with her bicycle “neatly tucked” next to it.
Isaac-Bacon called ‘Boogie’, said to be in her late 40s, of Lot 600 D Field, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was suspected to have been attacked by a man she was estranged from. The two, a close friend told Stabroek News last night, have a history of court attendance for assault matters.
The woman, who said Bacon was her best friend, reported that more than one year ago, the couple started having trouble and ended up in court after Bacon alleged that the man had beaten her.
However, the woman said that even though Bacon and the man were estranged the man still visited the Lot 600 D Field house and slept in a back room. Bacon, according to her, was still “being good to (him) despite the hell she had to deal with”.
“In recent times I can’t tell you that I see them having any violent fights but they have been having heated arguments…he didn’t hit her since after she take him to court for this domestic violence thing…but in the past I see him running her with a piece of wood and things like that,” the woman said.
Last Thursday morning was the last time she saw Bacon alive, the woman said. She could not recall the last time she had seen the man but was aware, based on what Bacon had been telling her, that the couple was still having trouble.
“I talk to her and we make plans to meet on Friday…and she didn’t tell me anything about having any recent problem with him,” the friend said.
On Friday morning, the woman said, she passed by Bacon’s home and shouted out to her but got no response. She repeated this on Saturday morning as well and did not think it strange when her friend did not answer because Bacon would often be out. At approximately 9am yesterday, she reported, a resident telephoned her and told her that a woman’s body was found a little past Bacon’s house in a drain and that it looked like her.
“After they tell me that I decide to go to the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour with the police to see if it was her [Bacon] and when I go it was her…one side of her face look like she get lash with something,” the woman said.
The woman has since informed police of her suspicions. However, she said that the investigators told her that they first needed to determine the cause of death to determine whether it was necessary to start searching for the man.
Bacon, the woman stressed, did not have any health problems and she does not believe that her friend fell into the trench and hit her head. “She does never ride that far past her house,” the woman insisted. “It got a shop two houses away from her if she need to buy something and she does never go all the way there…they find her more than two corners past where her house is and her bicycle was neatly tucked into the drain near her body. It look like someone hide her in the bush.”
Mid last year, the friend further said, Bacon and the man were at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court. It was alleged that the man had assaulted Bacon. Last year end the couple were in court again, this time the George-town Magistrates’ Court, for another case of assault.
Meanwhile, when Stabroek News visited the B Field, Sophia home of Bacon’s brother, who only identified himself as Isaac, the man said that he believes foul play was involved in his sister’s death.
“I mean the police tell us that we have to wait until the post-mortem examination but when I went to see her in the parlour one side of her face looked as though it was battered,” Isaac said. “She definitely looked like she had marks of violence about her body.”
Isaac said that he had spent most of the afternoon with police first assisting them to identify his sister’s body and with information. The man said that his sister was assigned to guard the home of a government official who lives along the Railway Embankment, ECD. Records at her workplace, according to Isaac, show that she left work some time around 9pm last Thursday.
“It was at that time she signed off work and left on her bicycle to go home…there are several things strange about my sister’s death,” he said.
The deceased, according to him, was the mother of an adult son whom she had from another relationship.
“It was a horrible thing for me to go and see my sister in such a terrible state…up to now is like it still ain’t sink in for me,” Isaac said.
In a press release issued yesterday afternoon police said that that Bacon’s body was found at about 7.30am.
According to residents in the area the body was clad in a green top, black skirt and black slippers when it was found.
It is not clear who discovered the body as according to some women the “persons who find the body run away” and they surmised that they may have left to alert ranks at the Turkeyen Police station which is located on the same road.
