The lifeless body of former Human Resources Manager of the Georgetown Public Hospital and Director at the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Lionel Bert Whyte was found with stab wounds last evening.
It is suspected that Whyte, 45, of Lot 79 Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara, was the victim of a carjacking/robbery that went wrong, which resulted in him being stabbed several times about the body by his attackers.
Initial reports were that Whyte was attacked by robbers who took his car and cell phone in the vicinity of Main and Middle streets around 8 o’clock last night and during the incident a scuffle ensued and the men stabbed him to the chest.
Police said in a press release last night that Whyte had collapsed on Main Street after sustaining stab wounds to the left side of his chest.
However, his sister, with whom he lived, Mary Whyte, told Stabroek News that another sibling received a telephone call some time around 6.30 pm and was informed that Bert had been involved in an accident.
She said “He came upstairs and he told us to give him a cap that something happen to Bert. About 5 minutes later he got another call [also] saying that he was in an accident.”
She added that they received several calls from his friends with different versions of what transpired, but they were informed that the incident occurred in front of her brother’s Robb and Hinck streets, Georgetown office and that his car, his cell phone and the jewellery he was wearing at that time were not found.
Mary Whyte said that about one hour after they received the first call, they were told that Bert’s body was found in Albouystown by a taxi driver, who transported him to the hospital, and that he was dead.
“They stab me brother to he neck and heart… They kill he and then dumped his body in Albouystown and a taxi driver find he and carry he to the hospital,” the grieving woman related.
He was pronounced dead on arrival.
