POLICE detectives are trying to piece together bits of information they have gathered, so far, while investigating the execution style killing of taxi driver Sean De Freitas Sookdeo.
The victim’s bullet riddled corpse was found early Tuesday morning at Thomas Lands, Georgetown, and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told the Guyana Chronicle that, at the time of the murder, Sookdeo’s motor car, which he was attempting to sell to a neighbour, was carrying a false number plate.
The vehicle was parked outside his sister’s home at Mc Doom Village, East Bank Demerara, relatives said.
The Crime Chief said statements have already been taken from several persons who did business with Sookdeo, in relation to the importation of vehicles for which they had made substantial down payments but not received delivery.
The Deputy Commissioner (Law Enforcement) said, as the investigations continue, they are also tracing calls Sookdeo made from his cell phone before he was killed, to probe into the business transaction he had made.
However, up to press time, no one was arrested for the crime although several leads were being followed.
Persaud disclosed that the passport that was discovered on the corpse is genuine but the United States (U.S.) visa in it had been revoked, and a background check is being done on the well travelled Sookdeo, who had been threatened by one of the persons who gave him money before the murder.
Sookdeo, 25, of Lot 12 Block ‘CC’ Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, was discovered early Tuesday by passersby, who summoned the police.
His injuries suggested that he had been severely beaten and tortured, having suffered gunshot wounds to the hands, head and abdomen, while there were burn marks to the back of the neck and abdomen.