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Mar 10, 2015 News
After an agonising wait of several months, the relatives of dead businessman Mohamed F. Khan will be allowed to bury his remains which were recovered in a bag at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara late last year.
The remains which were being kept by the state pending the results of DNA tests will be handed over to the relatives today.
This was disclosed yesterday by Crime Chief Leslie James, who announced that the DNA results had confirmed that the remains were that of the businessman.
“After we confirmed the results, relatives were contacted and the position is that they are preparing to have a burial. Tomorrow (Tuesday) we will be handing over the remains,” the Crime Chief told Kaieteur News.
Now that a positive DNA result has been obtained, the police are now treating Khan’s death as a murder.
The remains were discovered on a dam at Cummings Lodge on September 23; last, a month after Khan disappeared.
The skull, which was wrapped in a plastic bag, was located several feet from the body.
Khan, who had fled to neighbouring Venezuela after selling his business on Hadfield Street, had spoken of threats to his life.
However, police have not yet detained anyone in connection with his murder.
Khan, 54, had escaped execution in July at La Grange, West Bank Demerara, when a gunman shot him in his abdomen shortly after he returned to Guyana on a brief holiday.
He was last heard from on August 21.
A missing person’s report was first made to the Guyana Embassy in Venezuela by Khan’s Venezuelan wife; who last saw him on that date when he left the Spanish-speaking country for Guyana to contact his attorneys who were handling some business arrangements for him.
During an interview with this newspaper following the July execution attempt on his life, Khan had implicated a former business associate who had threatened him over a soured property deal.
Khan had also disclosed that he believed the gunman was either a serving or former member of the Guyana Police Force, giving rise to his suspicions that his business associate is using his well-placed “connections” to escape justice.
Khan, a former television talk show host on the popular CNS Channel 6, had been out of Guyana for the past six years, claiming that he fled the land of his birth because of death threats he had been receiving.
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