IN less than 48 hours after Wesley Holder’s body was discovered badly battered in an empty lot in the city not too far from where he lived, the police have since questioned two persons and while one has been released the other is still in custody.

Yesterday the aunt of 19-year old commercial sex worker Wesley Holder told the Guyana Chronicle that she was informed that the police detained two men both of whom are known to them. She said that the first suspect was taken into custody on Friday evening while the other man was taken into custody on Saturday evening.
According to her, based on what she was told by investigators the man who remains in custody was found to be in possession of a small pocket knife which the now dead teen would usually walk with as a means of protection.
She said the fact that the police found a weapon belonging to her nephew, on one of their suspects, the home of that individual should be searched. She said that she is not aware if the police searched the home of the suspect.
The woman said that one of the things that boggles the minds of family members is the fact that her nephew’s body bore several marks of violence including a slashed throat and neck along with multiple stab wounds, but there was no trace of blood at the scene which suggests that the young man was not murdered at the location his body was discovered.
She is of the view that whoever committed the act on her nephew killed him elsewhere and dumped his body at the location. Secondly she said that they are of the view also, that her nephew knew his killers. She came to that conclusion by stating that they wanted relatives and friends of the dead man to have no problem in locating his body after they killed him thus dumping it in close proximity of where he lived.
Paula Niles told this publication that she was also told that her nephew was last seen in the company of three men who were in a red car at the time. She said that based on what she was told the men approached her nephew for sexual pleasures and he hesitated to some extent.
According to her she has heard several stories on how the young man met his demise. One has to do with him going off with the men who took turns of having sex with him at an undisclosed location before murdering him and dumping his body.
The other has to do with him leaving to have sexual pleasures with one man and at the location where the act was to be committed, the man then had two other friends waiting and they either had sex with the teen before murdering him or just went straight to attacking him. She is also of the view that he had a fight with one or more than one of his clients and met his demise in the process.
Paula said that one of the men questioned by the police and who was later released came to her home on Friday morning to enquire of her now dead nephew and then informed the relatives that he heard that the teen was involved in a fight. She said that she told the man that her nephew was not on the road the night before and that he was in his bed sleeping, however when they checked he was nowhere to be seen.
She explained that it was that site that caused them to begin checking for him at the Brickdam Police Station and had planned to make a report to the police station by noon on Friday. The woman said that almost twenty minutes after the man left they received information that a body was found in an empty lot nearby and that it may be that of the teenager. When they checked their fears were confirmed.
However Paula said that the man’s appearance and disclosures to them were never reported to the police since they found nothing strange about someone being concerned about another human. However the police got wind of the man’s visit and proceeded to arrest him and take him to the station for questioning.
She said that when she arrived at the station on the invitation of the police and was confronted by the very man who visited her home. She said that when the police again questioned the man about they heard him informing the woman of earlier on Friday morning he denied that he ever visited the woman’s home and that he ever told her the things the police told him, he uttered.
Paula said that the manner in which her nephew met his demise was not necessary and if anyone wanted to harm him they should not have taken his life. She suggested that had he done anyone anything he should have been handed over to the police.
On the day the body was discovered many persons at the scene were openly commenting on the more meaningful role that should be played by the interest groups who appear to be fighting the cause for members of the gay community.
This newspaper reported those comments and made efforts to contact the head of one of the leading advocate bodies, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) those efforts were however unsuccessful.
But it was that bit of reporting that saw the head of SASOD Joel Simpson taking to his face book page to criticise this newspaper and accusing the reporter of “inserting his opinion in the news”.