Man dies of heart attack after robbery

UNABLE to deal with the anxiety and stress of being robbed for the third time in a month, well-known information technology specialist/lecturer/businessman Ken-rick Delochan, 61, died of a heart attack moments after being robbed, according to the results of an autopsy yesterday. According to reports, Kevin Delochan saw his father’s Isuzu jeep being driven in the San Juan area by an unknown person at around 10 pm. Believing that his father may have been kidnapped, he contacted the police, then went to the Computer Sciences Institute on Pembroke Street in Port-of-Spain, which was owned and managed by Kenrick Delochan, his father. The door was ajar and Delochan was found dead. His body was lying face down and his hands were tied behind his back.

The room was completely ransacked and computers and accessories were missing. The father of three, who had threatened to close shop permanently after a second break-in and robbery on Indian Arrival Day, was last seen alive at around 8 pm, when he was closing up after computer classes. The first robbery was on May 15. Delochan taught several classes in computer literacy and basics. The business had been at that location for the last three years. Police at first believed Delochan was strangled, but autopsy results confirmed he died of a heart attack. When Newsday visited his Grace Gardens home in Santa Cruz, Delochan’s relatives were too traumatised to speak. However, another son of Delochan, who was conducting an inventory of the stocks at the business place, confirmed jewelry, cash, computers and computer accessories were missing.

“My father was a wonderful and friendly man, loved by many. Whoever was responsible for this will get their just due. He was thinking about closing shop permanently after the last hit. Now he will not have that chance again. Those who are responsible for his death cannot escape. They will get what is coming for them in due course. All I want right now is justice for my father’s death.” The jeep was found burnt in the Santa Cruz Valley and is now lodged at the Santa Cruz Police Station. Police sources told Newsday they have no leads as no one saw anything, but they are pursuing a number of angles. Belmont police are investigating.