Two suspects have been taken into custody following the identification of the badly burnt body that was found close to the Number 63 Beach on July 21 with what appeared to be bullet wounds to his head.
Bishnu Singh, 38, called `Suresh’ or `Ears’ of Grant 1803 Crabwood Creek was identified on Friday morning, two weeks after the discovery by his brothers, Haresh and Devendra Singh after receiving a message from an anonymous caller that his body was in the Skeldon mortuary.
They told Stabroek News that although they had learnt that a body was found they did not think it was their brother. According to them he had planned to “go for scrap iron in the river [Corentyne]. We thought he was there and expected him to show up after a few days.”
Singh, the captain of a tug for a logging operation in the river had only returned home on July 18 and collected his salary the following day.
Reports are that residents saw him in the village around 10 pm on July 20. Around 7 am on July 21 there were reports that a body was discovered.
Haresh said that Singh would spend one month in the river before returning home. He was expected to return to his job within a few days. But he told relatives that someone hired him to transport the scrap iron from the river.
Singh, who was separated from his wife, is the father of a 10-year-old son who lives with his maternal grandmother at Palmyra, East Canje. (Shabna Ullah)