The post-mortem examination conducted on a Skeldon security guard indicated that he died from “cerebral hemorrhage with laceration to the brain and fracture to the skull as a consequence of multiple trauma.”
According to reports, 65-year-old Mahendi Hussein of Rampoor Settlement, Cor-riverton was discovered dead at his workplace at the Skeldon Sugar Moderniza-tion Project (SSMP) at around 5:45 am on Monday.
Hussein who was attached to RK’s Security Services was found lying in a pool of blood and a piece of wood with a sharp end was stuck into his left temple. His bicycle which he had purchased last year for $12,000 was missing and it was recovered at the Skeldon Hospital.
A man said to be of unsound mind was taken into custody in connection with the murder. A dark blue pouch that the suspect was seen carrying earlier was hooked on the bicycle.
Police had received reports around 5 am that a man was wreaking havoc at the hospital, causing nurses and patients to run out in fright.
Ranks visited the hospital and took the man into custody but released him shortly after on account that he was mentally unstable. But after police received reports about the murder and learnt that a bicycle was missing, they promptly rearrested the man.
Police had said in a press release that Hussein’s body was found in the guard hut of the SSMP with marks of violence to his head.
The release said too that a piece of wood suspected to be the murder weapon was recovered and a man was in custody assisting with investigations.
Police sources told this newspaper that charges are likely to be laid shortly.
According to the source, he is pleased that ranks were able to arrest the suspect before anyone else ended up being hurt as “the law says that those persons are not guilty of anything…”
He noted that the New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital is the place for such persons and appealed to the relevant authorities to ensure they are taken there instead of being allowed to walk around with dangerous objects, putting persons at risk.
