DEAD: 72-year-old Mohammed Nazir Khan.

The body of 72-year-old Mohammed Nazir Khan, a driver with Rockers Taxi Service at Parika on the East Coast Essequibo, was discovered yesterday morning on Dentist Street, Stewartville, West Coast Demerara.

There were stab wounds to the upper chest and slashes on his ankles.

Khan’s body was found next to his nephew’s grey Carina car, which he operated as a taxi.

The driver’s seat was stained with blood.

The driver’s personal jewellery and cash were missing.

Khan, of 172 Parika Railway Line, reportedly left his home on Thursday and headed for the Rockers Taxi Service base, minutes away from his home.

According to a dispatcher there, Mr. Intakhab Surjballi, known as Anthony, two men who appeared to be in their mid-twenties and dressed casually, came to the base just before 23:00h that night and requested a taxi to transport them to Stewartville.

Khan, who was there at the time, was assigned the job and left, but never returned.

“After some time passed I tried calling him but he did not answer and I got his voice-mail,” the dispatcher said.

The 72-year-old worked with the service part time and has been there for approximately nine months.

Khan reportedly took up the part-time job to fill his free time as he was also a school bus driver for the Met-en-Meerzorg Islamic School.

He leaves to mourn his wife, Mrs. Sursattie Khan, with whom he has two sons, Mukesh and Sergeant Mohan Khan, who works as a presidential guard.

Khan was described as a friendly, peaceful, jovial person who adored children, which is why he accepted the job as a school bus driver.

“He never had a problem with anyone,” Khan’s distraught wife cried, “He never hurt anyone.”

As the Khan’s wife bemoaned the loss of her husband, onlookers at the scene of the crime denounced the act as inhumane.

“One old man they gone and kill, they aint got shame,” one woman, a Stewartville resident, said.