The search for missing Brazilian expatriate Odair Bezerra Lins took a turn for the worse when police found his pick-up truck abandoned in Siparia with blood inside on Thursday night.
South Western Division Task Force combed the forested area where Lins’ silver Mazda BT-50, registration TCT 5301, was recovered. Siparia CID, led by Sgt Garvin Hayne, was on patrol along Quinam Road when they spotted the pick-up truck parked in a lonely area.
On searching, the officers found blood on the door.
It was taken back to the Siparia CID office where it was being processed by investigators.
Up to late yesterday, Lins, 55, who stayed in an apartment on Coney Street, Gulf View, La Romaine, was yet the be found.
He is an electrician at Brazilian firm Construtora OAS, which has been embroiled in a pay dispute with its retrenched workforce since the beginning of the year.
A report stated that he went to turn on a water pump at Mosquito Creek around 5.30 pm Wednesday but never returned home. A report was made to police after he did not report to work at the company’s Golconda base. A search was made throughout the mangroves along the creek, but without success.
His fellow expatriates told the T&T Guardian on Thursday that some of them were previously threatened by the retrenched workers after the company failed to pay severance benefits. Several of them were also trying to flee the country, fearing for their safety.
Lins, nicknamed “Nigeo,” was described as five feet four inches tall, of light brown complexion, with black curly hair, clean shaven face, brown eyes and a broad nose. (KF)