…Linden Mortley was forced into a heavily tinted car before he was murdered
IT is believed that former boxer, Linden Mortley, 43, of 13 Sussex Street, Charlestown, who was shot and killed on Sunday night, was forced into a heavily tinted car at gunpoint before he was murdered.
Reports said that Mortley was observed sitting in front of his home shortly after 18:00hrs and a silver grey car with tinted windows was observed parked in the vicinity of Sussex Street. Then the occupants of the vehicle came out and holding him at gunpoint, forced him into the car. Relatives are of the opinion that Mortley, a minibus driver was abducted and murdered by person known to him and for reasons unknown.
His body was found at ‘Busta Bridge’ in Festival City with a single gunshot wound to his head.
Distraught Suzetta Mortley, wife of the deceased, told the Guyana Chronicle that the father of her two children was at home and, as usual, was sitting in front of the yard and did not indicate he was going out.
She said that she was not aware he had left home but later that evening a reporter visited the home and informed her that a “Buckman” had been killed. She went to the scene where she positively identified her husband.
Mortley a minibus driver, who plied Route 41, was the father of two girls, aged 13 and 15.
His cellular phone is in the custody of the police, reports said.
The deceased boxer performed in the welterweight division from 1985 to 1993, both locally and overseas, and had six fights out of 12 under his belt.
Residents yesterday asked the authorities to investigate incidents of snatching in the area and also in downtown Georgetown, where men in a tinted silver grey car have been snatching handbags, among other things, from unsuspecting victims.
The body of Linden Mortley is at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour awaiting a post mortem.