– Police

A SUSPECT has been arrested and has since confessed to the murder of Herstelling ,East Bank Demerara resident , Terry Lackhan , whose lifeless body was found at his home on Thursday night,the police have said. According to a police release, the 55-year- old manager of Gafsons Industries Limited was strangled. Reports are that several items which were missing from the man’s home on the night of the incident, have since been recovered.
Around 23:00hrs on Thursday evening, the man was found motionless next to a wardrobe with a rope tied around his neck, with several bottles of tablets and photographs of his family members nearby.
The man’s only child, Riyad Lackhan, told reporters on Friday that he was in Berbice when he received a call from a tenant who lives in the lower flat of the building where his father resided. He said the woman informed him that there was a commotion upstairs; that was around 21:00hrs.
The woman later informed the young man that his father was found motionless on the bed next to a wardrobe.
According to him, his father was in the habit of knocking down objects around the house whenever he is intoxicated and he noted that the tenant assumed that was the case that evening.
“But after she saw someone leaving with bags… that’s when she got scared,” the man’s son said.
Lackhan’s son said that his father, who had been a manager at Gafoors for several years, was not experiencing any problems. He said he was in Berbice on Thursday and the last time he spoke to his father was during the morning hours that day.
A post-mortem is expected to be performed on his remains on Monday.