More than a month after an elderly UK-based Guyanese was found dead in his D‘Urban Backlands house, police have failed to make a breakthrough in the case though four persons including employees were held and questioned.
A senior police officer told this newspaper recently that following the release of three persons – a woman who cooked for the dead man and two carpenters — another man was held for questioning. However investigators were unable to garner any tangible information from him and as such he was released.
The officer assured this newspaper that in spite of this, investigators are still hunting for the person(s) responsible for the gruesome crime.
Meanwhile, Stabroek News understands that the remains of George Cadogan was returned to England where an autopsy is to be done shortly followed by burial.
This case is one of several in recent times in which police have been unable to catch the culprits. In many instances suspects are held sometimes for the maximum 72 hours before being released.
The suspects as a condition of release would be asked to report to the police occasional. However after some time would have passed the investigation comes to a standstill and becomes another unsolved murder.
Police in a release had said that Cadogan was found lying on the floor of his house located at 180 Century Palm Gardens around 4.45 pm on February 26 with his hands and feet bound and his mouth gagged with a bed sheet.
The release said the entire bedroom was ransacked. Further investigations revealed that a laptop computer was missing.
It was Cadogan’s brother, Glen, who made the gruesome discovery. He turned up at the house after several telephone calls to the home went unanswered and noticed that a sheet of plywood put to block a window on the ground floor was out of place.
He had earlier tied a bag of fruits to the gate after his brother did not respond to his calls. Relatives had told this newspaper that the man returned home just before Christmas last year.
The man was planning to sell the property and return to England where he resided with his wife and children.
