SHURLAND Dalloo, the taxi driver from Parika whose body was found aback of Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice fifty-five miles east of Georgetown on Sunday died from a fractured skull, an autopsy has revealed. The autopsy was performed by Dr Vivikanand Brijmohan on Monday. Observers at the post-mortem said that Dalloo’s killer or killers had apparently dealt him several blows on his forehead with a blunt object to the extent that the entire upper part of his face had been obliterated.
The taxi driver was identifiable solely on the basis of the clothing he was wearing when he left his home around 07:30 hrs on October 26 last to ply the Parika-Georgetown route. There was no evidence that he had been shot. Following the post mortem sorrowing relatives said that his remains will be taken back to Parika 26 miles west of Georgetown to be laid to rest Tuesday.
Dalloo left his home early on the fateful Monday in his grey Carina motor car registration number HB 8739. Around lunchtime his mother said, she called him on his cellphone and told him that his lunch was ready. He answered and told her that he would pass back home and pick it up shortly. He did not pick up his lunch and failed to answer subsequent calls to his cell phone. According to reports a minibus driver who is a friend of the dead man saw him inside his vehicle parked on the Flour Mill Road at Eccles East Bank Demerara with two men inside, around 12:30 hrs the same day.
The man said that Dalloo hailed him and put on the hazard lights of his vehicle. He returned the call but did not stop since he was transporting passengers and he felt that Dalloo was merely hailing him as he usually did. Reports said that the driver subsequently realised to his chagrin that Dalloo was probably being held hostage at the time and trying to attract his attention so that he could assist him in getting out of the situation. A group of West Coast Berbice men going into the backdam to hunt iguanas made the discovery of his badly decomposed body at Onverwagt on Sunday seven days after he had disappeared.
Relatives said that the discovery had ended an almost countrywide search for the 33 year old man after he failed to return home from plying his route on that date. “We searched in Linden in the Rupununi in Mahdia along the East Bank Highway West Demerara, all over. Many of his taxi driving colleagues were involved,” his uncle-in-law said. Others who declined to be named said that although the news of the discovery was horrifying at least they felt some closure in the discovery of his remains. They expressed hopes that the Police would soon arrest the perpetrators of the brutal act. Up to late yesterday afternoon the silver grey Carina motor car Registration # HB 8739 driven by Dalloo at the time of his disappearance had not yet been recovered. Dalloo is survived by his parents, his wife and a brother.