A West Demerara taxi driver was yesterday morning found dead with her head partially submerged in a trench among a clump of bushes at Lust-en-Rust, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and the car she drove is missing
Dead is Indira Bipat called `Jenny’, 47, a mother of two of Samaroo Dam, Klien-Pouderoyen, WBD. The vehicle she drove, a silver Toyota Axio with registration number PXX 4114, is missing. Her family believes that Bipat was the victim of a carjacking.
The woman’s corpse was discovered by residents of the community yesterday morning at around 7. The body is currently at the Ezekiel Funeral Home awaiting an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Bipat’s son Deokaran Samaroo, yesterday told Stabroek News that his mother worked part-time as a taxi driver at Goed Fortuin Cabs. That aside, he said his mother would spend most of her time taking care of his ailing grandmother.
Samaroo recounted that his mother left home on Saturday afternoon between 5:30 pm and 6 pm after receiving a phone call. Before leaving home, she informed her children that she would return within an hour.
“I didn’t wait to see if she come home. I went and sleep early. This (Sunday) morning when I woke up, my sister tell me mommy didn’t come home. She say she called her phone but she didn’t answer,” the son said.
Samaroo pointed out that it is unusual for his mother to stay out and work beyond 7:30 pm.
“After my sister tell me that, I go and made a report at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station. While I was there, a friend called and said they found a lady in Dairy [Parfaite Harmonie]. I still gave the police a statement and when I done, I went to La Grange Police Station because they are in charge of Dairy area. But while I was going, the police called my sister and said they need a relative to come and identify the woman they find,” the grieving son recounted.
He said before he could have positively identified his mother, investigators asked him to provide a description of the clothing she was wearing.
“She left home with a blue three-quarter pants and a t-shirt with some prints. After I told the police that, they said yes it was her,” Samaroo added. He related that he was accompanied to the funeral home by an officer from the La Grange Police Station and he identified his mother.
“I didn’t, couldn’t make it to check for marks of violence. I just looked at her face and said yes that is her. I couldn’t bear to look at her…” the son said.
Crime Chief Lyndon Alves, when contacted last night, said there was no new information on the death of the woman.
When asked whether his mother had any known issues with anyone, the son responded in the negative.
“To what we know, she don’t have any issues with people. She wouldn’t come home and talk if she had any issues with anyone,” Samaroo said.
