Homi­cide de­tec­tives are to­day ex­pect­ed to in­ter­view a 26-year-old man who led po­lice to the body of taxi dri­ver Sher­az Ali.

Last Fri­day, days af­ter Ali went miss­ing, the sus­pect, from South Oropouche, went to the po­lice sta­tion with his moth­er. He al­leged­ly told po­lice that he and Ali had an ar­gu­ment and he stabbed him twice in­side his car and Ali drove away.

He was ar­rest­ed and held at the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion as the search con­tin­ued for Ali. How­ev­er, on Sun­day around 5.30 pm, the sus­pect al­leged­ly in­formed an of­fi­cer that he want­ed to take them to Ali’s body.

He then led a par­ty of of­fi­cers to a precipice in a forest­ed and iso­lat­ed area about 80 feet in­to a dirt and grassy road at To­tal Av­enue, Ger­a­hoo Trace, Fyz­abad. Ali’s body was in an ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion.

Ali, who would have turned 65 years old to­day, was last seen by his old­er broth­er on May 19 around 9 am at Seukaran Street, Siparia, in his brown Nis­san B14.  

His broth­er went to the po­lice sta­tion and re­port­ed him miss­ing the fol­low­ing day. 

Based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived on May 21, Sgt Ban­mal­ly and oth­er of­fi­cers as­signed to the San­ta Flo­ra Po­lice Sta­tion went to a forest­ed area in Quinam Road, Siparia, where Ali’s car was found in­tact.  Due to the state of de­com­po­si­tion, po­lice said the dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer could not de­ter­mine if Ali’s body bore any marks of vi­o­lence.

Ali’s rel­a­tives went to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day to of­fi­cial­ly iden­ti­fy his body.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion III are in­ves­ti­gat­ing. — Sascha Wil­son