Slit taxi driver’s throat…

Oct 31, 2008 News

Deportee remanded

One of the two “carjackers” who brutally killed taxi driver, Vibert Assanah, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, yesterday, to answer the capital charge.
It is alleged that Louis Lancaster, 35, of Fifth Street, Alberttown, murdered Assanah on Sunday last. He was not required to plead to the indictable offence.
Yesterday, the defendant told the court that another person was with him at the time of the “murder”. He further told the court that he assisted members of the Guyana Police Force with information that could possibly lead to the arrest of the other person, but “they sit on de information”.
He added, “Your worship I getting death threats from de man family.” Lancaster opined that the police are not trying their best to locate the other person, because he even showed them the man’s family and they still didn’t do anything.

Murder accused Louis Lancaster

He was nevertheless remanded to prison.
Lancaster is expected to make his next court appearance on December 2.
Assanah, a former policeman, was killed shortly after 22:00 hrs on Sunday last, after he was lured into Bent Street by two men.
The 56-year-old taxi driver was apparently slain after he put up a desperate fight with his attackers. The man was stabbed, collapsed outside of the car and died shortly afterwards.
The two killers then fled the scene on foot, but one of the men who was reportedly wounded in the attack was later arrested in Hadfield Street. This person was later identified as Lancaster; his clothing had been drenched in blood.
Lancaster sustained a cut to his neck.
Earlier reports had claimed that Lancaster had admitted to being in Assanah’s car, but claimed that the other assailant had killed the taxi driver. After the two men had mortally wounded Assanah, they were seen sprinting further up the street and one of them was overheard saying, “We shoulda shoot dat f—ing man.”
Another man, later identified as Assanah, emerged from the driver’s side, the eyewitnesses said, clutching at his throat.
He took one step and then collapsed on the roadside, lying there motionless. He died shortly after.
According to the victim’s family, he worked outside of the GPHC, and sources told this newspaper that the assailants boarded the car at the hospital.