Miner stabbed to death at Kurupung

Feb 17, 2009 News

– female suspect flown to city

The dead man’s relatives, including his mother, Doreen Larson, (second from right) at the Ogle Aerodrome yesterday

Police have detained a woman whom they say could assist them with their investigations into the death of 31-year-old miner Mohamed Talbot, of Third Avenue, Bartica.
Talbot was stabbed to death at around 16:45 hours on Sunday, at Kurupung Landing, Middle Mazaruni.
His body was flown to the city yesterday, along with the woman whom police say is the prime suspect.
A press release from the Police Public Relations Department stated that investigations have revealed that Talbot and his paramour were involved in an argument, during which she is alleged to have stabbed him to his chest.
He was taken to the Kurupung Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Several of the dead man’s relatives travelled to the Ogle Aerodrome, where the body was off loaded from an aircraft into a Lyken Funeral Parlour hearse.
Talbot’s mother, Doreen Larson, who is originally from Waramadong but now lives at Long Creek on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway, told this newspaper that she last saw her son some time last year, after not seeing him since he was a child.
She said that on Sunday she received a telephone call from one of her daughters in Bartica, informing her of Talbot’s death.
“They say that how their brother died. I asked them who told them that, and they said a man from

Police escort the suspect after she deplaned at the Ogle Aerodrome.

Georgetown had told them,” Larson said.
“I bring my mother from the interior to see her grandson (Talbot) who she looked after when he was a baby.
She never see him back since then. He come away to Kurupung with somebody and we never see he back (till he get big),” she added.
According to Larson, her son was living with another woman in the Kurupung area.
“They were running a business there, and the woman come to town to buy some stock, and when she go back, he pick up with this other woman,” Larson explained.
She said that she received a telephone call from her son’s previous lover, but the woman told her that she will relate what happened when she comes to town.
“She said that she don’t want to tell me nothing more because I gon cry. She coming tomorrow (today),” Larson told this newspaper.
Yesterday, at the Ogle Aerodrome, the suspect appeared unfazed despite the large crowd that had gathered to see the body being removed from the aircraft.
She even waved to relatives who were in the crowd before being whisked away by the police.
“He was a big strapping boy. He had to be sleeping fuh she kill he,” Larson stated.
A post mortem examination will be performed on Talbot’s body tomorrow.
“I hope that he seven-year-old son who is in Bartica get to come down for his funeral,” the dead man’s mother said.
Police say that, although they have detained the female suspect, there is still a lot of investigating to be done before charges are instituted.