Investigators are hoping that the phone record of murdered hotel owner—Vivekanand Brijbassi, who along with one of his workers, was brutally murdered in an abandoned hotel building in Corentyne—will help to crack the case.
The partially decomposed bodies of Brijbassi and his caretaker, Harry Prashad were discovered on Friday last inside the building which once housed the Sun Splash Hotel. The men had been bound, gagged and tortured.
This morning, Divisional Commander, Calvin Brutus said that investigators questioned several persons based on information received but they were all released. One person remains in police custody but there is no strong evidence linking him to the murders.
“We haven’t made much progress. We are looking at each angle in this case,’ Brutus said. Meanwhile, a police source close to the case said that his colleagues will be trying to access the phone record of the murdered businessman.
While Prashad’s phone record will also be checked, investigators believed that Brijbassi, an overseas based Guyanese was the target. It is unclear if anything was taken from the victims but the building was ransacked.
Guyana Standard has been informed that the deceased closed the hotel a few years ago and migrated to Canada with his family but he recently decided to refurbish and reopen the business place and was making plans to do so.
In fact, he came here to install security cameras on the premises and to do minor repairs when he was brutally murdered. He was last seen alive on December 16, 2019 by his sister.
