Shar­lene Ram­per­sad

PH dri­ver Davad Bar­ran was stabbed 80 times be­fore his legs were set afire ac­cord­ing to the find­ings of an au­top­sy con­duct­ed by pathol­o­gist Dr Hughvon Des Vi­gnes at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, on Thurs­day.

Po­lice sus­pect the grue­some death may be a reprisal killing for the mur­der of an­oth­er man ear­li­er this year.

Bar­ran was left for dead in a co­coa es­tate in Gran Cou­va on Mon­day, where he was found by em­ploy­ees. He sur­vived long enough to tell po­lice the iden­ti­ty of the men who ab­duct­ed and tor­tured him.

He died while be­ing treat­ed for his in­juries on the scene.

Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors said they were work­ing on the the­o­ry that Bar­ran and ex-con­vict Garvin An­drews, who was killed on Sun­day, were vic­tims of a reprisal killing.

Po­lice said Bar­ran was be­lieved to have been a dri­ver for An­drews, who was a sus­pect in the mur­der of Hay­den "Lu­do" Nero.

Nero was gunned down in a street near his home in Cou­va on Feb­ru­ary 3.

An­drews was shot mul­ti­ple times in the head while he slept at an apart­ment in Freeport.

Bar­ran was re­port­ed miss­ing by his fa­ther on Mon­day, even as of­fi­cers were re­mov­ing his body from the co­coa es­tate.