Post Mortem (PM) examinations performed on the bodies of hotel owner, Vivekanand Brijbassi and his caretaker, Harry Prashad, showed that the men were tortured before they were murdered.
The examinations were done by Government pathologist, Dr. Nahaul Singh at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
Based on Dr. Singh’s findings, the deceased suffered from broken bones and blunt trauma. They were severely beaten and some of their limbs were chopped off.
The partially decomposed bodies of Brijbassi and his caretaker were discovered Friday last inside the building which once housed the Sun Splash Hotel. The men had been bound and gagged.
Divisional Commander, Calvin Brutus said that investigators questioned several persons based on information received but they were all released.
“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.
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.
