The man suspected of killing police Special Constable Neiburt Isaac-Bacon turned himself in at the Turkeyen Police Station yesterday, in company of his attorney.
After being questioned in the presence of his lawyer, Maxwell McKay, the suspect was arrested and remained in custody up to late last evening.
An autopsy conducted yesterday revealed that Bacon died from “asphyxiation due to compression injury to the neck, compounded by blunt trauma to the head.” The partially decomposed body of the 52-year-old woman was discovered in a drain, a short distance from where she lived in D Field, Turkeyen.
Bacon, a close friend had told Stabroek News, was estranged from the suspect, following a string of misunderstandings between them. The couple, according to the friend, had a history of court attendance.
The brother of the deceased, who only identified himself as Isaac, told Stabroek News that following the post-mortem examination on Bacon’s body, he was informed by police that she had been murdered. “Since I saw her lying in that parlour I knew that she had been killed,” the man said.
The man explained that when he went to the Turkeyen Police Station at about 2.30pm yesterday, the suspect was already present. The suspect, Isaac said, turned himself over to police some time after noon. “Now we will just have to wait and let the police do their work to see that we get justice,” Isaac said.
He added that his sister and the suspect had a feud, which had been going on for some time. Isaac said that Bacon had told friends that the suspect had threatened her on more than one occasion. The man, according to Isaac, had assaulted Bacon twice last year and the two had been in court for the matters. “I can’t remember if she directly told me that he had threatened her but I know that she told her close friends and they have been relating these conversations to me,” Isaac said.
Meanwhile, a senior police source told this newspaper that Bacon had recently gone to the court for a restraining order against the suspect. Despite this, the source said, Bacon continued to live in the Lot 600 ‘D’ Field house owned by the man.
The police source explained that Bacon’s adult son, who she had from another union, had wanted to build a house on the suspect’s property. However, the suspect had refused to let the young man build on his land and this had started a conflict between him and the deceased.
Confirming what a close friend of Bacon said on Sunday night, the source said the conflict resulted in the suspect being charged with assaulting the deceased early last year. He was charged at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court. After a second incident last year end, the source further said, the man appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting Bacon a second time.
Bacon was last seen alive some time around 9 pm on Thursday. The woman left her Prashad Nagar post, where she had been assigned to guard the home of a state official, on a bicycle. Early Sunday morning, her partially decomposed body was discovered in the drain with the bicycle neatly tucked in beside it in some bushes.
