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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Cops baffle over conflicting reports

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Kevon Felmine
2051 days ago
20200116


Po­lice are prob­ing con­flict­ing re­ports which have emerged in the al­leged kid­nap­ping of two doc­tors from the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal which re­sult­ed in the death of Dr Rudrade­va Shar­ma.

Ini­tial re­ports in­di­cat­ed that Shar­ma was found in the trunk of his wrecked Hon­da CRV SUV, but yes­ter­day one of the al­leged ab­duc­tors put a dif­fer­ent spin on the tragedy al­leged­ly telling a po­lice of­fi­cer that Shar­ma was in fact the dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle.

The 19-year-old is one of four sus­pects in the kid­nap­ping of Shar­ma and his col­league Dr. Prem Naidoo , the rob­bery and theft of Shar­ma’s SUV on Wednes­day night.

Re­ports in­to the tragedy were that Shar­ma, 38 of La Ro­maine and Naidoo, 37 of Palmiste fin­ished their shifts at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal around 10 pm Tues­day and were seat­ed in the SUV along Rush­worth Street Ext. Around 11.58 pm, the armed sus­pects ap­proached the SUV, or­dered the doc­tors out and robbed them of their mo­bile phones.

The doc­tors were re­port­ed­ly tied up and placed in the back of the SUV.
The sus­pects sped off to­wards the Solomon Ho­choy High­way. Around 1.50 am Wednes­day as they neared Macaulay, Clax­ton Bay, the dri­ver lost con­trol of the SUV.

Sur­veil­lance footage along the high­way showed the SUV flip­ping more than 16 times be­fore stop­ping in the grass.

High­way Pa­trol units and am­bu­lances re­spond­ed, and the men were tak­en to the hos­pi­tal.
While at the scene, the of­fi­cers found a firearm. Checks were con­duct­ed as to whether it was reg­is­tered to any of the doc­tors, but it was not.

San Fer­nan­do CID de­tec­tives met with the doc­tors at the hos­pi­tal and learnt that they were kid­napped.
Shar­ma, the nephew of for­mer tourism min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma, died be­fore reach­ing the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment. His fu­ner­al is ex­pect­ed to be held on Sun­day.
The three sus­pects were un­der po­lice guard at hos­pi­tal, caus­ing anger and fear among doc­tors and nurs­ing staff.

One of the sus­pects, a 19-year-old from La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do, was re­leased on Wednes­day evening.

In a con­ver­sa­tion with an of­fi­cer, the 19 year old sus­pect is re­port­ed to have al­leged that they were friends with the doc­tors and all of them were drink­ing and lim­ing on Wednes­day night. 
A fourth sus­pect, who mirac­u­lous­ly walked out of the wrecked ve­hi­cle which over­turned sev­er­al times, was said to be an­oth­er friend, whom they were go­ing to drop off in St Mar­garet’s Vil­lage, Clax­ton Bay.

Up to yes­ter­day, the mys­tery per­son, who was seen via sur­veil­lance footage leav­ing the scene of the ac­ci­dent, had not been found.
In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the sus­pect did not give an of­fi­cial state­ment to the San Fer­nan­do CID, which is yet to in­ter­ro­gate the sus­pect. This is ex­pect­ed to be done soon.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are sus­pi­cious of the sto­ry giv­en by the sus­pect. They be­lieve that he made the claims be­cause of the predica­ment that he faces. They said all state­ments will be checked against the ev­i­dence re­trieved.

Naidoo was dis­charged on Wednes­day night and was ex­pect­ed to be in­ter­viewed again.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed his home, the fam­i­ly said no one was avail­able for an in­ter­view.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are al­so work­ing to re­trieve footage from oth­er sur­veil­lance cam­eras along the high­way. Po­lice are hop­ing to de­ter­mine what took place be­tween 11.58 pm Tues­day when the doc­tors were snatched and 1.50 am when the ac­ci­dent oc­curred.
One of Shar­ma’s rel­a­tives scoffed at the teen’s claim, say­ing that it goes against the ev­i­dence that the de­ceased was found in the back of the SUV and ac­cord­ing to re­ports, his hands were tied.
Akeem Ma­rine, one of two sus­pects who re­mained at the hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day night, died yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said Ma­rine, 19, of La­dy Hailes Av­enue, suc­cumbed to his in­juries around 7 am. He was a known firearm of­fend­er.

Mean­while, the third sus­pect, a 17-year-old boy, al­so from La­dy Hailes Av­enue, re­mains in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion af­ter suf­fer­ing in­ter­nal in­juries in the crash.

Res­i­dents around the scene of the ab­duc­tion re­port­ed that they saw him with a gun on his waist on Tues­day night.

How­ev­er, po­lice said he was dis­charged in­to po­lice cus­tody yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

He was ex­pect­ed to be tak­en to the ju­ve­nile book­ing cen­tre in South Oropouche.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said he may have par­tial paral­y­sis.


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