FIFTY-one-year-old Mustak Alli of 179 Robindra Street, Annandale South, East Coast Demerara was yesterday morning discovered dead on the Annandale Public Road, a short distance from his home. He had been killed in a hit-and-run accident.

Alli’s brother, who identified his body to the police, told the Guyana Chronicle that he was alerted to the presence of his brother’s dead body on the road by another villager who visited their home. He said he readily recognized his brother when he went to the accident scene, and that Alli’s legs had been broken in several places.

Alli’s widow, Indira, related that she was at home when she heard the news. She said she had last seen him alive on Saturday night, when he left for work in Good Hope, three villages away. She recalled that he left home at approximately 16:00 hours on his pedal cycle.

She said he had been all excited about Father’s Day, and had insisted that his three biological adult children and the 11-year-old he and his wife had adopted when the child was only eleven days old be at his home on Father’s Day.

Indira said that her husband had been heading home to assist her with the cooking for Father’s Day.

This is the second time that the family has lost a loved one to a road accident. In 2013, Mustak Alli’s brother was killed in a hit-and-run accident involving a Canadian citizen, who was acquitted after the police had failed to prepare a proper file.
That accident also occurred on the East Coast Demerara Public Road.

The police reported yesterday that they were able to tow into the police station an abandon car which was suspected to be involved in the accident. This publication was later informed that the owner of the car was not the one driving it at the time, but both the owner and the purported driver, an Annandale resident, were taken into custody.

It was not clear up to press time last evening whether the vehicle remained impounded as well.(Leroy Smith)