The body of a man, who appeared to have been stabbed and slashed across the throat, was found at Grove, East Bank Demerara yesterday morning.
Dead is Seepaul Beharry, 53, who did odd jobs in the village.
According to villagers, Beharry’s body was found lying on a bench at a shop at about 6am. Police later put the time of the discovery at 8am. They said the body bore “suspected stab wounds to the throat and abdomen.”
His brother, Dhanraj Gossai, said Beharry was an alcoholic with no fixed residence and had lived on the road for the past 25 years. He said that he received a call around 6am about the death of his brother.
He added that when he arrived at the scene, he saw what appeared to be two visible stab wounds in his brother’s abdomen and his neck appeared to have been slashed.
Gossai added that he could not understand why someone
