GTT claims phone records already handed over to Police

Murdered female taxi driver

One day after Guyana Times published an article with D-Division Commander Edmond Cooper saying that Police are yet receive the call log for murdered taxi driver, Indira Bipat, the phone company, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT), is claiming that they provided the information to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) within hours of request.
In a release to the media, the company revealed that it has been in full compliance with the GPF in efforts to solve the investigation of murdered taxi driver, Indira Bipat.
In addition, the release stated that the request from the GPF was received on May 24 and the necessary information was provided to the relevant authorities on the same day.
On the other hand, the release posited that GTT was appalled at the information coming out of the D-Division.
“The Force did not request additional information and I am quite distraught that it has brought GTT into such spotlight, stating that they are still awaiting information from the company”, a release from the Company Representative, Travis Piggott, said.
However, when contacted for an update on the matter, Commander Cooper noted that the detectives were yet to locate the missing car of the dead taxi driver and would have reviewed CCTV footage with the hope of doing so, but to no avail.
The next step, he told Guyana Times on Thursday, was to get the phone records from GTT since Bipat reportedly left her home after receiving a call on her mobile phone.
“Her phone was never recovered, and we already contacted GTT to trace the calls that she made and would have received. As it is, we are still waiting on that information from GTT to be provided to us so we can follow that route. We will ensure that we check and double check all avenues possible to get to the bottom of this as soon as we can,” he added.
On May 19, the body of 47-year-old Indira Bipat, formerly of Lot 18 Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, was found in a ditch at La Parfaite Harmonie, but her silver/grey Toyota Axio bearing registration number PXX 4114 that she had been driving was missing.
Bipat reportedly left her home at about 17:30h on May 18. After she failed to return home that evening and the following morning, her son filed a missing person’s report at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station.
While there, the son received a report from a female friend informing him that the body of a female had been found at La Parfaite Harmonie. As such, the family rushed to the scene and their worst fears were confirmed.
The Post-Mortem Examination that was conducted on Bipat’s body revealed the cause of death as strangulation, compounded by blunt trauma to the head.