RESIDENTS on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday alerted the police to a suspicious looking car parked in the vicinity of Foulis Old Road not too far from where businessman Rajendra Singh was kidnapped and later found murdered at the Le Repentir Cemetery.

Police ranks immediately responded to the call and when they arrived at the scene the vehicle, a Fielder Wagon, was left abandoned in the area, but the two occupants who were earlier seen inside were nowhere to be found.
Checks by the police later revealed that the very car was hijacked from taxi driver Linden Graham on Emancipation night by three men who had joined his vehicle under the pretext of wanting to use the car for hire.
While the men neared their destination in Ruimveldt, one of them placed an object to the back of the man’s head and ordered that he stop the vehicle and hand it over to them. The man complied and the trio fled in the car.
Graham told investigators that he could not say if the men placed a gun to the back of his head since he could not see what the men used. Yesterday when the vehicle was recovered it was found that the number plates were swapped.
It was the victim’s drivers licence which was still in the vehicle that led investigators on the East Coast of Demerara to ascertain who the owner of the vehicle was.
Written By Leroy Smith