Three weeks after Jagdeo Thakurdeen, a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara electrician was found dead on the Good Hope Railway Embankment, police are still to arrest his killer and relatives are claiming that investigators are failing to do their job.
Thakurdeen’s sister, Amrita, told Stabroek News on Friday that they feel as though nothing will come out of the matter, as the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is not doing anything to find his killer three weeks after the incident took place.
Since her brother’s death, Amrita said, the police have made no progress on the investigation and they believe that they are “dragging their feet on the issue.”
She said, “I can’t see why they are taking so long to do something,” while noting that a number of persons are being killed and the police are failing to solve these crimes.
She further remarked that “nobody saying anything if we ain’t say nothing. The police are not doing their job.”
A wanted bulletin for the suspect, Satish Neil Ramcharitar, 26, who is a taxi driver from Mon Repos, was issued by police shortly after Thakurdeen’s death.
Thakurdeen’s sister also said that the car that was involved in the accident was returned to the owner and they are not certain if any or enough evidence was removed from it.
She added that all they are looking for is justice because they are not interested in compensation, and that the police “should put a little more interest into this.”
A post-mortem examination had stated that Thakurdeen died owing to head injuries. Police have officially said that he was struck down as he walked along the Good Hope Railway Embankment road.
But his family had said that he died after the driver of a car attempted to dislodge him from the bonnet of the vehicle. The driver of the car refused to stop and drove off with Thakurdeen hanging on the bonnet from La Bonne Intention (LBI) to Mon Repos. The driver then reversed the car and ended up on the railway embankment at Good Hope, where Thakurdeen’s body was later found.
