The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) yesterday said that it has been fully cooperative with the police in the investigation of the murder of West Demerara taxi driver Indira Bipat and that a request for her call logs was fulfilled on the same day it was made.
“…We received the request from the GPF (Guyana Police Force) on May 24 and we related the necessary information to them on the same day,” GTT’s Travis Piggott said in a press release issued by the company yesterday.
Piggott added that no further request was made.
The release was issued in response to an article carried in the June 28th edition of the Guyana Times newspaper, under the headline ‘Police yet to locate missing car of murdered female taxi driver, GTT to provide information about the dead woman’s call log.’
The article stated that Commander of ‘D’ Division Edmond Cooper said the next steps his investigators have taken is to contact GTT to assist in the investigation. “Her phone was never recovered and we already contacted GTT to trace the calls that she made and would have received. As it is we are still waiting that information from GTT to be provided to us so we can follow that route. We will ensure that we check and double check all the avenues possible to get to the bottom of this as soon as we can,” the article quoted Cooper saying.
Piggott expressed disappointment in the contents of the article, while stating that no efforts were made by the newspaper to confirm the information stated by Cooper. “At this point, we at GTT are demanding an apology from the Guyana Times Newspaper for publishing an article without the facts,” the release stated.
Bipat’s body was discovered in a clump of bushes at Lust-en-Rust, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) by residents of the community around 7 am on May 19th.
It is suspected that Bipat, called ‘Jenny’, 47, of Samaroo Dam, Klien-Pouderoyen, WBD, was a victim of a carjacking.
An autopsy later showed that Bipat died as a result of strangulation, compounded by blunt trauma to the head
The Toyota Axio car she drove, PXX 4114, is missing. To date, there has been no sighting of the car and no arrest has been made in the matter.
