The execution of businessman Leonard Mahadeo has been added to an already long list of shelved police investigations and unless new clues surface it will remain at a standstill.
Mahadeo was gunned down in a bar at Eccles, East Bank Demerara on March 17, 2012 in a well-planned attack. The only motive police investigators have been able to come up with is that it was drug related. Three of his alleged associates had been detained as part of the investigation in days following the shooting but were all released without charges being laid.
Contacted recently on the status of the investigation, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News that
