KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mur­der of a Siparia man, well known to au­thor­i­ties, whose body was dis­cov­ered out­side his home yes­ter­day.

The vic­tim has been iden­ti­fied as 38-year-old Car­los “Ve­ju” Ma­habir, an un­em­ployed res­i­dent of Sha­ba Ali Trace, Mendez Vil­lage, Siparia.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 11 am, of­fi­cers from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion re­spond­ed to a call re­gard­ing a body found at the lo­ca­tion.

When PC Ma­haraj and WPC Gra­ham from the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion ar­rived at the scene, they found Ma­habir ly­ing face down on the ground in a shed out­side his house. He had ap­par­ent chop wounds. Po­lice said the house had no elec­tric­i­ty.

Ma­habir’s sis­ter in­formed the po­lice that she last saw him alive on Mon­day evening when he went to sign in at the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion. Yes­ter­day morn­ing, around 9 am, she went to check on him and dis­cov­ered him ly­ing mo­tion­less in the shed.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr De Gannes vis­it­ed the scene and ex­am­ined the body be­fore or­der­ing its re­moval to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James for an au­top­sy.

De­tec­tives from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, led by Sgt Forbes, along with SWD’s In­sp Pacheco and Sgt Boodoo, al­so vis­it­ed the scene to con­duct fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions.