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Sep 16, 2009 News
– three detained
A 29-year-old firefighter was doused with acid and then hacked to death by three men who had cornered him in a backyard toilet at his Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara home early yesterday.
Daly, of Lot 99 Esau Street, Land of Canaan, was chopped nine times with a cutlass and a machete while his reputed wife looked on helplessly.
He collapsed and died from gaping wounds to his back and limbs. Police said that the ferocity of the attack left one of his legs partly severed.
Daly’s attackers fled the scene, leaving a bloody machete near his mutilated body.
But police sources said that they have since arrested two men and a woman in connection with Daly’s murder.
However, two of the main suspects, identified as ‘Bucko’ and ‘Short Man’ are still at large.
The victims are all from Land of Canaan and the two main suspects are tenants in the same two-storey house in which Daly, his reputed wife Denise George and step-daughter Tiffany George live.
Kaieteur News understands that Daly only moved to the area about five months ago.
The brutal murder occurred just a day after the same gang had tried to kill Daly.
The fire-fighter had escaped by hiding in a neighbour’s yard.
Collapsing several times from shock and grief, Denise George recalled that she awoke at around 5:30 to prepare breakfast while her reputed husband went to the outhouse, as he habitually did in the morning.
The woman said that she was about to cook when she heard Daly calling her.
On going outside, she saw the suspects ‘Bucko’ and ‘Short man’, who were armed with a cutlass and a machete, standing near the outhouse door.
Ms. George said that Daly, who had shut himself in the outhouse, shouted to her to call the police.
“He say call the police, and he give me a number (for the Timehri Police Station), and I call, but the number ring out.”
Daly’s reputed wife began to plead with the men to spare her husband but ‘Short Man’ brandished the cutlass at her and warned the woman to “move out of the way or she would get it.”
While Daly remained locked in the outhouse, a third man, who was armed with an iron bar, arrived on the scene.
He then used the metal pipe to wrench open the outhouse door.
“When they open the door, he (Daly) try to run but they throw the acid in he face and push he down and they start chop he.”
The men then fled the scene, leaving their mortally wounded victim on the ground. Daly succumbed shortly after from his injuries.
Ms. George said that the dispute between Daly and the suspects stemmed from an altercation he had with them on Saturday night.
The woman and other residents alleged that the suspects were in the habit of disturbing other tenants by standing in front of the house where Daly resided while drinking alcohol and behaving obscenely.
On Saturday, Cecil Lewis, the elderly landlord, ordered the suspects to desist after they began to behave in a rowdy manner.
“‘Bucko’ say carry yuh mother—; we paying rent”, Ms. George said. She alleged that the suspect known as ‘Bucko’ attempted to assault the elderly man and became annoyed when Daly intervened.
On Sunday, ‘Bucko’ confronted Daly, who was forced to inflict a beating on ‘Bucko’. Daly’s reputed wife said that the suspect then summoned three other friends and a woman who is related to one of the suspects.
The suspects were reportedly armed with cutlasses and a handgun, and Daley was forced to seek refuge in a home of a female neighbour.
The resident told Kaieteur News that this angered the mob and some of them threatened to kill her. According to Ms. George, one of the suspects, who claimed to be a policeman, was armed with a handgun and carried a pair of handcuffs.
Daly eventually managed to slip away and make a report at the Timehri Police Station.
But according to reports, the police alleged that they could not visit the scene since they had no vehicle.
Ms. George and other relatives berated the ranks at the Timehri Police Station for not investigating that complaint and others Daly had allegedly made to them about the attempts on his life.
They observed that the ranks had finally arrived to investigate after Daly had been slain.
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