No leads in GR taxi driver murder case

Approximately six weeks after 24-year-old GR taxi driver Balram Jadoonauth was gunned down execution-style in front of his Dennis Street, Campbellville home the police are yet to crack the case.

Since the arrest and subsequent release of the prime suspect there has been no development in the case, said to be the result of a triangular love affair.

Jadoonauth was discovered with a gunshot injury to his back after his car crashed into a utility pole a few houses away from his home on Sunday, April 16 around 3.30 am, while returning home from work. He was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Balram Jadoonauth

When contacted on Monday evening, Jadoonauth’s father, Lomash Jadoonauth said that they have heard nothing from the police about the investigations. He said that that last word was that investigators will contact him to view video footage at a point where Jadoonauth was last seen alive. To date he is still waiting to be contacted.

Police had initially arrested a man whom they thought murdered Jadoonauth but later released him after they said that there was not sufficient evidence to convict him. Relatives say that they are confident that the man murdered Jadoonauth because he had once attempted to shoot him.

“We are sure that it’s the same man killed him because he tried doing it once but he escaped but he didn’t this time… and when he do it the first time the woman said that her husband is a junkie so he nah report it to the police,” a relative said.