THE police are still seeking to question Mark Reid, son of Andrew Reid, an ailing Linden pensioner whose battered body was found sprawled in his home on Saturday last.Mark Reid remains the prime suspect in this killing, which the police are treating as a robbery/murder.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed yesterday that Mark Reid is being sought although the police have not yet issued a wanted bulletin for his arrest. Blanhum said Mark Reid had indeed served time in a Suriname jail, but up to press time the police were seeking to confirm whether the sentence was murder-related or robbery-related.

The late Andrew Reid’s wife, who had left him home alone on Saturday when she attended church, told one section of the media that she returned home just after lunch to find her husband dead. She said she suspected that something was amiss when she observed that the blinds in the house were untied and were let down to prevent any visibility into the house from the road, or onto the road from within the house.

Her husband’s body was found in his bedroom on the day in question. Investigations are ongoing.