Police are still awaiting results from DNA samples taken from a decapitated body suspected to be that of missing businessman Mohamed Khan, Crime Chief Leslie James says.
James told Stabroek News on Tuesday the samples are still at a lab in Trinidad and the investigators are still awaiting the results. They had been sent there sometime in early December last year.
Asked when the police are expecting to receive the results, James said he was not sure. “We have no control over that,” he stated.
Although Khan was last heard from on August 21, he was reported missing last October.
He had travelled from his home in Venezuela to meet with his attorney and to look after some business in the interior.
His relatives told Stabroek News they are concerned about the length of time it is taking for the results from the samples to be received.
They said it took a long time for the samples to leave Guyana and it appears as though they would have to wait an even longer period for the results.
A relative said members of the family are all on edge and living a lives of uncertainty.
The relative said it is hard to just sit and endure the wait to confirm whether the body is indeed him.
On September 22, a decapitated corpse was found at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. The corpse was also missing one leg from the knee down and a foot from the other leg was apparently severed at the ankle.
It was Khan’s wife, who lives in Venezuela, who positively identified a belt and pants found on the corpse as being her husband’s property. A mark was also found in the stomach area of the corpse and it is believed to be from a gunshot wound Khan sustained during a failed execution attempt months earlier. The pathologist could not confirm if the mark was a gunshot wound, given the decomposition of the body.
Although relatives are offering a $500,000 reward for any information on the missing man, they appear convinced that the corpse is his.
