Body identified as businessman

At 5 am yesterday, a team of officers of the Southern Division led by Insp Don Gajadhar went into the Oropouche area where they recovered Joseph’s Nissan Tiida, which police said, had been abandoned. According to reports, just after midnight on Friday, Cpl Khan and along with other officers of the Court and Process Branch, San Fernando were conducting exercises in the district when upon reaching Dumfries Road, they observed a body on the roadside.

The body which was clad in a brown t-shirt, a brown three quarter pants and a pair of slippers bore multiple gunshot wounds to the head.

Supt Gaffar, Insp Gajadhar, Sgt Ramlogan, PC Morris and Cpl Francis of the Homicide Bureau along with the District Medical Officer (DMO) visited the scene. An autopsy is expected to be done today. In an unrelated incident on Thursday, police reported that at 4.30 pm the skeletal remains of a human were found in some bushes at M2 Ring Road, Debe. A skull was among the remains which are also yet to be identified.

Homicide officers are investigating