Although police were alerted to a man being badly beaten by three assailants on Monday evening, Keston Jeffrey’s battered and semi-nude corpse was only found yesterday morning, hidden under a culvert.
When Point Fortin police went to North Trace, Cap-de-Ville, around 6 pm Monday, they found Jeffrey’s white Nissan B-14 ditched in a river.
The car was traced and his family notified. For hours they searched the dark and forested area but around 10 am yesterday they found him a few metres away from where his car was found.
Jeffrey, 25, a PH taxi driver of Egypt Village, Point Fortin, bore several stab wounds to the abdomen and neck and it was believed he was hijacked, robbed and killed.
According to his mother, Theresa Liverpool, he had been working the Point Fortin to New Village route since he was retrenched from Construtora OAS where he worked as a pipe fitter.
Liverpool said when her son left home on Monday, he had $7,000 to buy a new engine for his car. However, that was missing along with his gold chain.
Jeffrey’s sister, Asha Samlalsingh, said she went to the hospital while other relatives went to the scene but they saw no sign of him.
She said while working Construtora OAS, Jeffrey decided to buy a car to work taxi as he feared the work would shut down. She said he was working hard to finish his house which he started recently.