Youth confesses to torching Enmore pensioner at supermarket
The identity of the man whose badly burnt body was discovered lying motionless on the premises of a Chinese supermarket at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Monday morning has been given as 72-year-old Mathura Etwaru of Enmore, ECD.
Arrested: Marco Seudatt
A suspect in the man’s death, Marco Seudatt, 22, a labourer of Lot 175 Fourth Street, Foulis, ECD, was arrested, and has since confessed to committing the heinous crime.
According to reports, the suspect was arrested on Tuesday, hours after he was seen on CCTV footage having an argument with the now dead man.
Commander of Region 4 ‘C’, Mahendra Siwnarine, when contacted, related that the suspect confessed to the crime during Police interrogation. He added that based on Police investigations, neither the suspect nor the victim was known to each other.
It was reported that Etwaru’s severely torched body was found close to the fence of the Huaxin Supermarket located at Lot 371 Beezie, Enmore, ECD. His body was discovered at about 08:16h by a painter. Following the discovery, an alarm was raised and the Police were summoned to the scene. The body was removed and taken to Lyken’s Funeral Home, where it awaits a post-mortem.
After reviewing the CCTV system installed at the supermarket and at contiguous buildings, it was revealed that at about 02:46h on Monday morning, the deceased and the suspect were involved in a heated argument, after which the suspect was seen holding on to the deceased and pushing him to the northern side of the fence.
The suspect was then seen picking up some empty cardboard boxes and heading to the area where he had pushed the deceased.
At about 03:12h, a fire was seen in the same area where the deceased was lying. The suspect then picked up a bicycle and left the scene.
Police are now of the belief that the suspect thought the pensioner had died after pushing him into the fence. As such, he “panicked” and set the elderly man alight using the cardboard boxes.
The suspect is expected to make his court appearance shortly.
