CRIME Chief Leslie James yesterday confirmed that the Guyana Police Force will be taking samples from the remains found at Cummings Lodge in September and match them against persons who are claiming that they are the relatives of missing businessman Mohamed Khan (MFK) and that the remains found are his.

James, during an interview with the Guyana Chronicle, explained that the police will also first have to determine if the remains which were found without a head attached is indeed a person of East Indian ancestry.
In addition to that, several other tests would have to be carried out and according to James those would be done locally and whatever cannot be done here would have to be sent outside of Guyana to a destination that would be decided upon.
The Crime Chief also explained that due to the absence of the number two Pathologist Dr. Bridgemohan who is on leave, Dr. Nehaul Singh is extremely overwhelmed and as such he was unable to conduct the post -mortem yesterday as anticipated by the police.
He, however, assured that the post-mortem would be done in the coming week as early as possible.
On Wednesday the relatives of the missing businessman identified the remains which are at a city funeral parlour as that of the missing businessman who had survived execution attempts on his life in the past.
Sources said that the relatives were able to positively identify the partly decomposed remains of that of the businessman but it is not clear what aspect of the remains caused them to be so sure. It was against that backdrop that the Crime Chief said that the mere claim by the relatives that the remains are that of the businessman could not suffice and therefore tests would have to be carried out.
In September, workers clearing an area close to the cemetery at Cummings Lodge on the railway embankment stumbled on the headless corpse which seemed to have been tortured before it was dumped. The head suspected to being part of the body was discovered a short distance away on a private property in a plastic bag after it was taken there by the dogs which had already began devouring it.

(By Leroy Smith)