As the whereabouts of missing teenager Tenisha Morgan of Buxton, East Coast Demerara remain a mystery, the man who police believed would have assisted them with information, was questioned over a number of days and then released.
Manu Durant, for whom a wanted bulletin was issued, had turned himself into the authorities on Monday accompanied by his attorney. This newspaper was reliably informed that the man was interrogated by at least two officers of the Cri-minal Investigation Department (CID) and another man who reportedly identified himself as an army intelligence officer.
The source said Durant was questioned on Morgan’s whereabouts and was released. Back in December last year, a man who was the victim of simple larceny had alleged that Durant had stolen some $1.2 million from him. The source said Durant had visited the Alberttown Police Station and made a statement to the police and the complainant, on seeing him, advised the police that Durant was not the person who had robbed him. He was reportedly released on station bail and was not charged.
However, after the police issued the wanted bulletin for Durant and after he was arrested and questioned on Morgan’s disappearance, the police charged him with the now almost two-month-old larceny, although the VC had made it clear that it was a case of mistaken identity.
Yesterday Durant was taken before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson Ogle and later freed.
