The police were on Wednesday granted an extension to further detain the suspect who was arrested earlier this week over the 2015 murder of taxi driver, Colin Clarke.
Contacted for an update yesterday, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum informed Stabroek News that the suspect, Sheldon Colin Abrams, was transported to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Eve Leary where he was being questioned up to last evening in relation to the crime.
Blanhum added that the police on Wednesday approached the High Court for more time to detain Abrams and the application was granted.
Abrams 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 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).
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.
