Two persons, who were detained at the Cove and John Police Station, for the murder of an overseas-based Guyanese, have confessed to the crime, police sources say.
Forty-nine-year-old Abdool Hackeem Khan, called David, a nurse from Queens, New York, was murdered and his body dumped at Letter T, Mahaicony. Khan left to go out with his friends on Tuesday night. His body was discovered in a clump of bushes around 11.30 am on Wednesday.
Though relatives do not feel robbery was the motive for the murder they said “his wallet with all his money [US currency] and more money that he bring for people was missing from his pocket.” According to police sources, one of the suspects also confessed that he took US$800 from Khan’s pocket. Another man also said that he took some money. Police have since recovered the money and it has been lodged at the station. Three vehicles and a taxi driver are also in custody.
A woman told Stabroek News that she saw a crowd on the road as she was returning home from Georgetown around 2.30 pm on Wednesday and she noticed Khan’s body. The woman said he appeared to be neatly dressed in a pair of faded blue jeans, a white t-shirt with light blue sleeves and a pair of red and white Nike sneakers. She also observed what appeared to be “dried blood on his ears and nose.”
Khan’s mother, Zaitoon Khan, was too distressed to speak when this newspaper visited her Belmont, Mahaica home yesterday. Between loud sobs, the woman said, “me son gone; where ah gon get a good son like you from? Ow me son, you like sport too much
