The murder of Nootenzuil resident Llewellyn Kissoon, who was found dead aboard his boat one  morning just over two years ago, continues to haunt his family, which thinks not enough was done by police to find whoever is responsible.

Kissoon, 74, a former fisherman known as ‘Sea Tarzan,’ was aboard the family boat on the night of February 25, 2008, in order to guard the vessel and its engine. It was some time around 5am the following morning when the man’s son, Arnold Kissoon, discovered his body. Llewellyn’s body was tied with a half-inch rope which was wrapped around his feet, arms and neck. His body was already frozen in that awkward position. It was subsequently discovered that the boat’s engine had gone missing.

Llewellyn, his family is convinced, was the victim of a brutal robbery which resulted in his death. Several efforts made to contact Crime Chief Seelal Persaud about the case were unsuccessful.

At the time of the murder, there was only one house located by the foreshore. The occupants might have been the best chance investigators had of locating witnesses. In fact, a man who lived there with his family had told the Kissoon family that he had seen a white car drive along the seawall the last night Llewellyn was seen alive. “The man tell we that around 8 o’clock that night when meh father woulda already gone out to the boat he see a white car driving along the wall…my father had to get kill shortly after he went out there…all of this we tell to the police and still they ain’t do nothing,” Arnold told Stabroek News last week.

A few days after Llewellyn’s death, Arnold recalled, two men had been taken into custody.

One of the men had met Arnold’s brother Jerry Kissoon the morning their father was found dead. The man, Jerry said, told him that he had heard Llewellyn was killed by two men from Lusignan who stole the boat’s engine. “I de surprised when he come and tell me that,” Jerry recalled. “When he meet me up and tell me that news of my father death ain’t had chance to circulate yet.”

However, police later took that man and another into custody. One was released the same day and the other the following morning. Police, Arnold said, informed them that there were no eyewitnesses and they could do nothing so the case would have to be closed.

Police subsequently arrested one of the man’s sons, Glifford Kissoon. Glifford told Stabroek News that the police informed him that he was a suspect in his father’s death and they would keep him for questioning. He was released three days later.

Three months after Llewellyn’s death, one of the brothers, Michael Kissoon, 43, fell from an outdoor stairs landing.

He succumbed to his injuries almost a week later. The Kissoon family was again plunged into grief.  As Arnold and his family struggled with these events they were also receiving threatening calls. “A few days after my father die somebody call here and tell me how they going to kill me next,” Arnold said. “We tell this to the police and provide them with information but still they did nothing.”

The calls, Arnold explained, continued up to six months after his father’s murder. These calls were made by at least two females and one male. As a result, the Kissoons installed a callers’ ID.

“After we get the callers’ ID, my sister-in-law managed to pick up a cell phone number from which these people was making the calls,” Arnold said, “We give this number to the police at Cove and John Police station but nothing never happen after that.”

Arnold and family believe that police could have definitely done more to investigate Llewellyn’s death. Last year end, he pointed out, was the most recent case of engine larceny.

However, according to him, no serious investigation has ever been done into these cases, leading him to question whether anyone cares whether a poor fisherman loses an engine or is killed during one of the night-time episodes.

Radikah Kissoon, 72, has not been in good health since her husband’s death. Days after Llewellyn’s body was discovered, the woman lapsed into a three-day coma. She still grieves for her husband and is extremely distressed at the fact they will never get justice. She shared her son’s opinion. “No one, no one, no one is doing anything,” the woman said.