Post mortem results for Belle West resident, Mohamed Rasheed, called ‘Spanner’ who died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital on Tuesday morning revealed that the man did not die as a result of the beating he was said to have suffered on Sunday night.
The autopsy which was performed yesterday on Rasheed’s body by Pathologist Nehaul Singh gave his cause of death as a heart failure that resulted from a lung infection he had. The report stated also that cirrhosis of the liver was also a contributing factor.
Singh explained that while he found trauma to the back of the man’s head and to his stomach, he could not say whether these injuries would have been consistent with a fall or a hit.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Simon McBean when contacted by Stabroek News said that no charges will be laid against the alleged suspect in relation to the man’s death or beating. The alleged attacker who was in police custody assisting with investigations was released from the lockups yesterday.
Sixty-seven-year-old Rasheed was said to have been beaten by a resident living two streets away within his neighbourhood, after he returned from a People’s Progressive Party/Civic rally in Berbice on Sunday night.
Relatives said that Rasheed had gone along with them to the rally and upon returning they dropped him off at the head of the street sometime around 11:30pm. The man’s daughter-in-law, Ronadai Rasheed, said she received a call from a neighbour at 4:30am the next morning, informing her that Mohamed had been beaten some hours before and needed to be taken to the hospital. The woman had said that her father-in-law had told her before his passing that he was punched to the face and this resulted in him falling to the ground. He was then stomped in the stomach by a man who had passed him on a bicycle.
The family of the deceased is upset that no charges will be laid against the alleged attacker.
