A fourth person has been detained as investigations continue into Wednesday’s fatal attack on Nigel Lowe, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud who said that ranks are making little progress in the case.
Persaud said the total number of persons in police custody stands at four. He said those in custody are not “telling us everything”. According to Persaud, ranks are not being provided with names of the persons who participated in the attack. All they are being given, he said, are descriptions.
Asked whether ranks have found the houses the man allegedly broke and entered, Persaud said that at the moment Lowe’s death is not “being linked to any particular matter”.
Among those in police custody are a man and a woman who are renting a property in `A’ Field from Lowe’s mother.
Based on what this newspaper was told there was a recent spate of robberies in ‘A’ Field Sophia. It was alleged that earlier Wednesday morning residents had caught
40-year-old Lowe and two “armed” men breaking into a house and raised an alarm. The two men managed to escape but Lowe was cornered in an outdoor latrine in a nearby yard.
The man attempted to escape the residents who by then had surrounded him and were beating him with cutlasses and sticks. He ended up in a house in the yard where the pit latrine is located and was followed by the residents who continued the assault. The man was then taken to ‘B’ Field Sophia where the beating continued. This newspaper had been told that around 2 am, Lowe’s lifeless body was tied to a utility pole and then covered with pieces of wood. The residents had apparently intended to burn the body but for some reason decided not to.
There were about 30 persons involved in the attack during which he was beaten with sticks and chopped.
Meanwhile the man’s mother Jenny Lowe told Stabroek News that a post mortem examination on Friday revealed that he died from lacerations to the head. She said that during the examination it was also found that both of his arms had slipped out of their sockets.
