Kelvin Daly, the 51-year-old miner who was hacked to death sometime between Sunday evening and Monday morning near Puruni Landing, in Region Seven, was chopped and stabbed more than 40 times, an autopsy confirmed yesterday.
A police source yesterday informed Stabroek News that an autopsy revealed that Daly died as a result of multiple incised wounds.
The autopsy was performed yesterday by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh at the Memorial Funeral Home.
However, Daly’s wife, Shonette Andrews, told this newspaper that he was stabbed and chopped 43 times about his body.
The bloodied body of Daly, a father of four of Lot 86 Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara, was discovered around 7.15 am on Monday along a trail located about a mile away from Puruni Landing by one of his colleagues, who was on his way to their camp.
He had chop wounds to his head, throat and back.
The incident occurred sometime after 5.15 pm on Sunday and before 7.15 am on Monday.
However, while the motive remains unknown, Stabroek News was told that several persons were held for questioning and were later released.
Daly was discovered dead by a 34-year-old co-worker, also of Ann’s Grove, who had reportedly told the police that he and Daly were ‘punters,’ who worked in a camp located a short distance from Puruni Landing.
The man had explained that he last saw Daly on Sunday afternoon, when he left the camp to raid mining lands.
Meanwhile, Andrews, had previously explained this newspaper that Daly left home in December last year to work in the interior. It was the longest he had ever stayed in the interior, she said.
Andrews added that Daly would make contact with her but not often. However, she learnt he was returning home after one of their sons, who also worked in the area, returned home last Sunday and informed her.
It was the same son who told her that someone came to their home and told him that Daly had been chopped. She said after hearing the report she ran out and a girl showed her the picture on a phone. “So I ask she, ‘This is who? And wah happen to he, if he dead.’ And she seh, ‘Is [he]. They chop he up.’ Duh is when I start crying,” Andrews said.
