By Jeff Trotman
The body of a BOSAI excavator operator was found bound and tied with the hands behind the back on the lonely expanse of the Washer Pond around 6 am on Wednesday not far from the excavator he was supposed to have worked on for the 7 pm to 7 am shift.
The computer box, which is necessary for the excavator to work was missing.
The body was identified as 45 year old Edgar Trotman, father of six children but who lived alone at Block 22, Wismar, not far from his mother and other siblings. When Stabroek News visited the home of the deceased’s mother, she said that she was too shocked to visit the body when the call was made about the discovery of her son’s corpse.
Orin Trotman, a brother of the deceased, said that he received a phone call a little after seven in the morning from his sister, Arlene, informing him that his brother was found dead and bound. He said that he immediately went to his mother’s home and he and his sister Arlene went to see the body.
He said the sudden death and the manner in which his brother died is “real shocking to me and my family because to hear something like that and to such a jovial person”. He said the computer component was missing from the equipment his brother had been working on in a twelve-hour shift that began from 7 pm on Tuesday. He believes that the men went to steal the computer component in the excavator and his brother was there and maybe, could have recognized them and they decided to kill him because dead men tell no tales. “Maybe, they had to get it and he was an obstacle in their way,” he added: “He did not receive stab wounds but he was well beaten up and he was tied up with his hands behind his back.”
Orin said Edgar had worked at BOSAI for seven years and he was not aware that Edgar had any feuds or grudges with anyone. “I mean, everybody have their ways … he didn’t have any problem because the people, who he worked with tell me he was always a jovial person and a person, who always happy.”
Stating that she was informed that he was struck in his forehead with a wood, Arlene said the computer box that was stolen costs close to $2M and she was disturbed that her brother was working on expensive equipment such as an excavator alone in the dark of night in a desolate area without security. She said that the excavator cannot work without the computer box. She is adamant that the people, who stole the computer box and killed her brother, knew the value of the box and knew the area well in which the equipment is located.
Mother of the deceased, Janette Trotman, said that she last saw Edgar between 5.30 and 6.00 pm at her home on Tuesday and he told her that he was going to work for the seven o’clock shift. She said that she walked out of the shop and yard with him and he told her that he would not be working the following day because it was his day off.
She said that he lived a few houses from her home and as he walked away from her, she had a funny feeling that “he looked so dark to me”. She said in that instant she attempted to call him back but he went around the corner into another street and she said to herself: “Leh he guh long his way.”
Disclosing that she lives in Canada but returns to Guyana during the winter season, Edgar’s mother said that whenever she is in Guyana, he would go to her home before he goes to work. She said that she has eight children – four girls and four boys – and he was the third boy.
She said that she returned to Guyana for his father’s funeral in February this year and she returned to Canada but came back to Guyana some weeks ago following the death of her brother, who lived on the East Coast of Demerara. Now she mourns the death of one of her sons. She said that she did not go to see the body.
She said that her son lived alone but has six children with different mothers. She described him as being “nice and so to people”. She said: “He does tek he lil drinks and suh. I does tell he, man, don’t drink.”
