A second Trincity taxi driver was found murdered yesterday and police believe, like another murder victim last month, his killers wanted to burn his body.
Darryl Gordon, of Maloney, was found with a plastic bag over his head in a drain in Warrenville, Cunupia.
Gordon, who also worked a PH taxi along the Trincity/Cane Farm route, was reported missing since Thursday morning after he failed to return home Wednesday night.
Two used tyres were found on his body and police believe he was to be set ablaze but the killers eventually didn’t do so. Police said around 9.05 am yesterday, officers of the Cunupia Police Station were called and told that a body was found in a drain at Farm Development, Warren Road Extension East, Cunupia.
On May 12, the charred remains of Anthony Superville were found at Windy Hill, Arouca, when a villager went to clear a piece of land that had been burnt some days before. Superville, who was identified through dental records, had been missing since May 6 and his car was found a short while after he had been reported missing.
Seth Clarke, 26 has been charged with his murder.
In an unrelated incident, the partially burnt remains of a drug addict was found beneath the pavilion at the Clayton Ince Recreational Ground and Sporting Facility yesterday.
According to police reports, at about 7.55 am residents called the Maloney Fire Station to the pavilion at Banyan Boulevard to douse a fire.
Firefighters responded and extinguished the fire and later found the partially burnt body of Anthony “Bones” Paul, 51. Police said Paul, who lived beneath the pavilion, was locked inside before the place was torched.
One relative said yesterday that Paul was heard screaming from beneath the pavilion before help came. The relative said she was tired of hearing sad news for the week, noting a teen in the area had also committed suicide days before.
“Bones is someone I grow up around, up to yesterday he was by me. He might have his problem with his drugs but he was always respectful to me.
“He was a good mechanic and handy man. As far as I know he never used to break into people house but what he would do is if someone bring their fan to fix he might sell it to someone else, but nothing to deserve this,” the woman said.
Paul, the father of four and grandfather of three, was remembered by the mother of three of his children, Karen Singh, as a caring man, who did not deserve to be locked in a room and left to die. Singh said although they were no longer together, she was hurt that his life was taken this way.
The two killings have pushed the murder toll to 200 according to police figures. For the same period last year there were 164 murders.