After managing to elude the police for almost five years, a 49-year-old man who is accused of murdering taxi driver Colin Clarke in 2015 was apprehended in Mahdia, Region Eight on Monday.
According to a police press release, ranks acting on information received went to a location at 111 Miles, Mahdia where they arrested Sheldon Colin Abrams of Lot 6 Supply, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
In May, 2018, the police had issued a wanted bulletin for Abrams, who was wanted for questioning in relation to the murder of Clarke which occurred between November 25 and December 3, 2015 at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD).
Abrams remained in police custody up to yesterday as ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) Cold Case Unit continued their investigation into the matter.
Clarke, 57, was last seen alive in his silver Toyota Allion, HC 4993, on November 25, 2015 around 3 pm at his Crane, WCD home.
His body was found on December 3rd, 2015 in a trench at Uitvlugt, WCD and it is suspected that he was robbed of his car and murdered.
Maureen Clarke, Colin’s sister, had explained to Stabroek News that on the day the body was discovered that family members were able to identify the man from his clothes and the three silver chains he was wearing.
“He was killed long because his body was already decomposed badly …,” she said, while stating that from the information she received from the police and the marks she saw, the man was strangled.
I saw the thing they used too. It was left tangled between his chains,” she said. She described the object as being rope-like, with two wooden ends.
