On Christmas Eve morning investigators discovered the car of murdered taxi driver Leyton Garraway on Mandela Avenue just outside the National Cultural Centre.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud recently told this newspaper that the vehicle, which went missing after Garraway’s body was found at Dora, was fitted with fake licence plates. The vehicle, he said, was left abandoned at the Mandela Avenue location and it took investigators some time to identify it as the car which was in Garraway’s possession.
Garraway was discovered dead along a trail at Dora, Soesdyke/Linden Highway on December 22. He had been gagged and his hands and feet tied. His body was discovered lying face down along the trail more than 24 hours after he was last seen alive.
The man, investigators had said, was most likely killed at one location and then dumped at the Dora trail. Investigators were following leads that some of the perpetrators boarded a No.43 minibus shortly before Garraway’s body was discovered.
Wornett Garraway had told Stabroek News earlier that she believes her husband was robbed of the silver grey car which was 6 weeks old. However, now that the car had been found the woman is no longer sure what may have been the motive for Garraway’s murder.
A post-mortem examination has since revealed that Garraway died from shock and hemorrhaging due to multiple chop wounds. The man was laid to rest on December 31, 2010.
Since she identified her husband’s body at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour, Wornett told Stabroek News yesterday, she had heard nothing from police. It was the owner of the car, she said, who told her that the vehicle had been discovered.
In a press release following the discovery of the man’s body police had said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding his death. Garraway’s body, they said, was found at about 2.30pm on December 22, 2010, at Dora along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway. The body, police had reported, bore wounds to the face, neck and hands which were bound together with a belt.
