Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are await­ing in­struc­tions from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on po­ten­tial charges against a woman and four men sus­pect­ed of mur­der­ing 60-year-old Cunu­pia busi­ness­man Im­raz Ali.

Ali, re­port­ed miss­ing on Sep­tem­ber 4, was last seen leav­ing a shop in Freeport, dri­ving a black Nis­san X-Trail. His de­com­pos­ing body was dis­cov­ered over a month lat­er, on Oc­to­ber 10, wrapped in plas­tic and dumped down a precipice off the North Coast Road near the pil­lars.

Five peo­ple have since been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with Ali’s mur­der and re­mained in cus­tody as of yes­ter­day evening. Po­lice con­firmed that a file con­tain­ing ev­i­dence and wit­ness state­ments has al­ready been com­piled and sub­mit­ted to the DPP for re­view.

A brief fu­ner­al ser­vice was held yes­ter­day at the Nazir Ah­mad Seemab Memo­r­i­al Masjid in Char­lieville, where friends, rel­a­tives, and col­leagues paid their fi­nal re­spects.

Mourn­ers told Guardian Me­dia that no eu­lo­gies or per­son­al trib­utes were con­duct­ed due to the con­di­tion of Ali’s body; on­ly prayers were of­fered be­fore he was laid to rest at Mon­roe Road Mus­lim Ceme­tery.

Ali, af­fec­tion­ate­ly known as “Clubs”, was re­mem­bered fond­ly by the com­mu­ni­ty.

Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed ex­pressed his sor­row over the killing.

“I strong­ly con­demn this heinous and sense­less act that has left us all heart­bro­ken. No one de­serves such a fate and no fam­i­ly should have to en­dure such pain,” he said.