A twenty-four-year-old man who was arrested by police last weekend in connection with the murder of Dacwan Sutherland, whose body was found in a Sophia trench, has been released as there is no “substantive” evidence linking him to the crime.
Speaking to Stabroek News on Thursday a senior police officer did not disclose what led to the man’s arrest last Saturday but informed that the man was released on Wednesday.
On July 2 the child’s body was pulled out of the Sophia trench one day after he went missing while running an errand for his mother.
His mother, who was on duty as a security guard at the Digicel Cell Site in Sophia at the time, had sent her son to their Sophia C Field home to retrieve some items. When he failed to return she started a frantic search for him and while persons said they saw him at various times no one said they saw anything suspicious.
It was the following morning that the child was pulled out of the trench where there is a submerged bridge that connects two streets. The mother and residents had pointed out that even if the child had fallen into the trench and drowned he should have still been wearing his clothing.
A PME had revealed that the boy died from drowning and blunt trauma to the head. It was also discovered that he had been sexually assaulted.
