A Coroner’s Inquest is scheduled to begin this week to determine if anyone is responsible for the death of Ian Chaves, the 43-year-old Industry resident whose lifeless body was discovered on the Turkeyen Public Road six years ago after a suspected hit-and-run accident.
In a notice issued in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News, the Registrar of the Supreme Court Sueanna Lovell advised that six persons, including three police officers, are expected to testify at the inquest.
The inquest, according to the notice, will be conducted on Thursday, June 20th, at 9 am, by Magistrate Rushelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts.
Chaves, a former employee of Hand-in-Hand Mutual and of Lot 9 Crown Dam, Industry, was found lying on the Turkeyen Public Road, near to the Liliendaal pump station on March 27th, 2013 following an accident.
An autopsy later showed that he died as a result of multiple injuries.
His wife, Khaneza (only name given), had told this newspaper that she was cooking when a caller who only identified herself as “Amanda,” asked her to visit the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Amanda, Khaneza had said, related to her that she and her family were heading to Georgetown when they noticed a body lying on the ground.
They stopped to render assistance and that was when they noticed a black Noah vehicle parked a few yards away from Chaves’ body.
The vehicle was just parked and did not even offer any sort of assistance. It drove away before “Amanda” and her family could have gotten a chance to take down the licence plate number.
Khaneza had said that by the time she arrived at the hospital, her husband was in a bad state and unconscious. Both of his arms and legs were broken and there were lacerations all over his body.
The doctors, she said, tried to revive Chaves but he had a punctured lung and severe internal bleeding. He eventually succumbed.
At the time of the accident, Khaneza said that Chaves was on his way home after having left to go to Albert Street to do part time work.
Khaneza had explained that he would normally use the “line-top” to go home and found it strange that he took the public road that day.
The police had told Stabroek News that investigators were still trying to determine if Chaves was indeed a victim of a hit-and-run.
They had said that no debris was found on the road to indicate that there was a collision neither was there any damage on the motorcycle to indicate that it was hit by something. No arrest was made.
