– autopsy

AN autopsy on the battered body of Krishnachand Dabee, 72, who was found on Monday evening in his yard at Lot 149 Annandale South, East Coast Demerara, revealed that he died from blunt trauma to the head, a fractured neck and spine.

The pensioner was found lying at the bottom of the rear stairs of his two-storey, wooden house. His body bore injuries to the head and near the right eye. There were bloodstains on the ground next to a water barrel where the body was found and a blood-stained stone was found near the body.

Reports indicate that his body was discovered by his 40-year-old daughter, who is a lecturer at the University of Guyana.

It is alleged that his daughter was trying to make contact with him on his landline phone, but it went unanswered after several calls.

She then immediately visited the Vigilance Police Station and made a report. A police team was dispatched to Dabee’s address and on arrival, found him lying in his yard face up with injuries to his right eye and to the back of his head.

The police made checks in the house and discovered that it was ransacked.

One neighbour said the pensioner and his wife lived in the home and about one month ago, they were tied up and robbed. The woman, who was hospitalised, did not return to the house. Instead, the neighbour said, she (wife), moved into a senior citizens home and her husband, had since lived alone.

“The wife sees who were the bandits and never wanted to return home. She sick since then. She expected that the bandits would have returned and they come back and kill the man now,” another neighbour said.