POLICE are hoping to make a breakthrough in the murder of a Philadelphia, East Bank Essequibo seaman whose decomposing body was found along the access road at Ruby on Friday.They have held the private hire taxi driver for questioning. The man claims that he picked up the deceased from his home, but on their way to Parika, also on the East Bank Essequibo, the passenger joined the vehicle of a friend and that was the last time he was seen alive.

Davonan Sookram, 37, left home on July 27 for Parika, and had been missing since.

Police reported that at about noon on July 31, they received information that a decomposing body was observed along the access road at Ruby, with a suspected gunshot wound to the head.

It was later identified to be that of the missing man, Davonan Sookram.