Girl among four held in taxi driver killing

FOUR persons, including a 17-year-old girl, are now being questioned in connection with the brutal murder of a 22-year-old taxi driver whose throat was slit and body dumped in some bushes at the back of a house in Couva Friday night. Police are unclear about the motive behind the murder of Samraj Rajkumar, but believe it is linked to a teenaged girl, behind whose house the body was found. Investigators believe Rajkumar knew the three men whom he took to the house at Calcutta No 1, Mc Bean, Couva.

Reports said around 9 pm, Rajkumar had an argument with the suspects and he was stabbed several times about his body. His throat was also slit. Police said in an attempt to hide the body the killers dumped it behind the house. The three suspects were held by police as they were leaving the scene of the crime. The body was removed to the Forensic Science Centre, Port-of-Spain where an autopsy is expected to be performed tomorrow. Rajukmar lived with his father Roopchan Rajkumar, 50, stepmother, Kawal, 45, and sister, Leela, 19, at Garth Road, Princes Town. Wiping her tears away, Kawal said on Friday Rajumar came home around 11 am for lunch. She said when he came back later that evening he told his uncle, whose car he worked, he was going Couva to drop some people and he would be home in an hour.

But he never came back. Relatives expressed anger that the police did not contact them about his death. Kawal said her stepson worked as an orderly and only started working taxi two months ago. The grieving woman could give no reason why someone would want to kill him, whom she described as a “quiet and well loved person.” At his mother’s home (which is opposite his father’s), a grief-stricken Vashti Sussilla Doon screamed repeatedly for her dead son “I want back meh son. I want justice for my son,” she sobbed. Snr Supt Mayers and ASP Archibald are spearheading investigations.