A SUSPECT who was in police custody has reportedly confessed to the brutal murder of Hamson’s General Store owner, Farouk Ghanie Hamid, and sleuths are looking for two other persons of interest, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday afternoon.He said the breakthrough was made yesterday in the case of the Regent Street businessman after the suspect confessed to the crime.

The senior officer added that the man claimed he did not act alone but had two accomplices whom he named.

Farouk Hamid, 56, of 97 Collingswood Avenue, Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara, was found on the morning of April 16, 2015, in his backyard next to his dog kennel with a stab wound to his chest.

He was allegedly murdered the night before his body was discovered after he was ambushed while tending to his dogs. The body was found by his wife, who had gone to the property after many calls to his phones went unanswered.

An autopsy performed on the body found that he died as a result of a single stab wound to the chest.
Reports had indicated that an unfamiliar man had visited the businessman’s home prior to his murder but no one could say who he was.
Hamid was not known to entertain strangers at his home and was probably killed minutes after he had arrived home from his store by person (s) he knew.
Nothing in his home seemed to have been ransacked and the murder weapon was found on the premises.