It has been over a month since the slashed and lifeless body of 56-year-old Orin Bishop also known as ‘Gassa’ was found lying in a patch of bushes along the Greenfield South Access road on the East Coast of Demerara and no one has since been charged with his murder.
Bishop’s body was found by a passerby at about 4:15 pm on November 20, 2022, with his head almost severed and multiple chops about his body.
Commander of Regional Division 4 ‘C’, Senior Superintendent Khali Pareshram yesterday told Stabroek News that since the fatal chopping two persons were arrested and placed in custody by the police but they were eventually released on station bail. He added that further investigations are however ongoing.
This newspaper had previously spoken with Bishop’s wife, Jilyan Bishop, who had noted that she last saw her husband before he left their Victoria Village home for Bee Hive on Saturday, November 19, at about 3:20 pm to attend the wake of one of his family members.
Although Bishop did not return home on Sunday, his wife said that she did not raise an alarm since the man would sometimes sleep at his friend in Buxton where she thought he might have been the entire time. “Why I didn’t raise an alarm is because he is a person like if he go out and he meet up with a friend that he ain’t see long they will go and have a nice time. So I claiming that probably he gone to a friend in Buxton where he does normally be. But when I look at the time on Sunday I turn to one of my daughters and I said `you know wuh, like something happen cause this is strange because Orin ain’t come home as yet and so something gat to happen because he don’t really stay out so late and so long.’”
The grieving wife stated that after realising that something might be amiss, she decided to venture to the Cove and John police station on the Sunday at about 1.45 pm where she made a missing person’s report. She added that after her nephew saw the news on Facebook of a body being found later that Sunday afternoon, it made them fearful and so they went back to the police station late Sunday and asked about the body.
They were told by a police officer that indeed they had received a call from someone informing them about a body and that several ranks had attended the scene.
“I was inside and my nephew was scrolling on Facebook and he said ‘Aunt J what is the description of the clothes Orin was wearing?’ So I said why you ask me that, so he said ‘Man, come nah,’ and then I said he was last seen with a white jersey and a navy blue pants with some green flowers on it. So I ask he again what is it, then he said, ‘Man, I scrolling Facebook and I see the description they find somebody at Greenfield so it could be Uncle Orin.’”
The family had since been calling on the police to conduct a thorough investigation into Bishop’s death due to the manner in which he was brutally chopped. “I do want the police to carry out a thorough investigation because that’s my husband and the way he was killed was really brutal… is brutal murder, like they chop and chop and chop, is like he went fighting for his life cause from the chops on his hand is like he try holding the cutlass or whatever and it cut and slice he hand deep, deep, real cruel, is like they chop me husband like a daag,” Bishop’s wife had told Stabroek News.
