Robbery victim regrets call for help after murder of taxi-driver

Omar Harper

Latchmin Sookraj, the victim of a robbery who taxi driver Omar Harper tried to aid moments before he was fatally stabbed on Saturday night, says that guilt is now consuming her as she believes that had she not called out to him for help, he would still be alive.

“I sorry I call for him. I really feelin’ guilty,” an emotional Sookraj told Stabroek News at her Fifth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara home yesterday. “I don’t care about the phone. I am sorry that he had to lose his life because of me… I don’t mean for it to happen this way,” she added, as she appealed for all those who saw what transpired to come forward.

The suspect in the robbery and murder, who was later found by