The East Canje Berbice cattle farmer accused of ordering the kidnapping of a 36-year-old woman whose body was discovered aback of Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice on Friday, was found dead yesterday morning; it was alleged he had committed suicide.
Police in a statement on Friday had said that Telisha Domandeo of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, was found at Betsy Ground, East Canje, Berbice, with an incision to her neck. Her body was wrapped in a blanket.
A wanted bulletin was issued on Friday for her ex-partner, Sunil Durga, 50, who was suspected to have ordered her kidnapping. However, on Saturday evening police received information that relatives were attempting to bring Durga out from the Canje Creek when he reportedly claimed that he wanted to die, after which he jumped overboard.
It is suspected that he consumed a poisonous substance before jumping into the Canje Creek.
Yesterday morning, it was reported that a body was spotted in the creek. Police went to the location where Durga’s body was discovered along the Brotherson Long Hook Pump in the Canje Creek.
The man’s brother later identified the body to be that of Durga. He told Stabroek News that his brother’s body had no marks of violence.
Information provided by the police revealed that Domandeo went missing on April 14. At the time, she had moved out of her home at Crabwood Creek and was living with her mother at Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.
Domandeo had shared a relationship with Durga some years ago, which produced one child who is now ten years old.
Domandeo’s sister, Peshna Domandeo yesterday explained that her sister had left the East Canje area and moved to Crabwood Creek where she met her now husband with whom she has two children.
About two months ago, she and her husband had an issue and she left the Crabwood Creek home with her three children and went to her mother’s house in Blairmont.
The sister stated that Durga, who took care of his son, would usually drop off items for him. However, on the evening the woman was kidnapped he allegedly arrived at the location with three other men armed with a gun and cutlasses. “He come by my mother and them three man come in and duct tape she mouth and take her out. And he son recognise the car and run out and ask him where he taking mommy and he tell the boy to shoo and then he gone,” Peshna Domandeo said.
A police report was subsequently filed and police said checks were made for both Domandeo and Durga in regions Five and Six but they were not found. However, Friday morning a resident reported the sighting of a body aback of Betsy Ground, East Canje Berbice which was later identified to be that of the missing woman.
Domandeo’s body, clad in a blue t-shirt and multicoloured trousers, was found a short distance away from Durga’s animal pen.
Meanwhile, on Friday evening police were able to arrest two people suspected to be part of the gang that kidnapped the woman. As of yesterday afternoon they remained in police custody.
Post-mortem examinations are expected to be carried out on the two bodies sometime this week.
