DPP returns file to investigators with recommendations

Parika, EBE murder

The chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Tuesday confirmed that the file of Waheeda Shamshudeen, who was found brutally murdered on August 6, 2020, was returned to the detectives with the necessary recommendations.
Based on reports reaching Guyana Times, the DPP received the file on August 26, 2020 and it was returned to the investigators on September 4. The DPP has recommended additional information be included.
In addition, this publication understands that the DPP also requested that the Police ascertain the correct names of the two suspects who were listed in the file as “Long Hair” and “Pepsi”.
Further, the Police were expected to also confront two other suspects.
On Monday, it was reported that Nabeela Shamshudeen, the daughter of the dead woman, was contacted by the Police who informed her that they were awaiting the advice of the DPP. This was told to her after she went to enquire about the progress of the investigations.
The dead woman was found by her son-in-law, who went to take her to visit her 20-year-old son, Nazir Khan, who was hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was brutally chopped by their neighbour.
This occurred just a day after the woman received death threats from the same neighbour, with whom she had not been on talking terms for years
She was found on August 6 with a dent to her head, her neck severed, and a plastic bag over her face. Her body was also covered with a sheet.
The woman’s son-in-law had stated that when he went to pick up his mother-in-law, he made several calls to her, but all of the calls went unanswered. It was when he went to check, he made the gruesome discovery.
After the death of the mother of eight, the Police had detained four persons, inclusive of the persons who the family had suspected of the murder, but they were all subsequently released.