Cops seeking advice after finding no evidence of murder

May 04, 2010 News

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With all the hoopla surrounding the tragic death of 30-year old Bridgette Gangadeen, investigators are now forced to seek the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine what charge or charges to institute against the woman’s husband, grass track motorcycle champion, Dwarka Gangadeen, called Dave.
After gathering significant evidence, investigators have prepared a report on the matter and have almost ruled out murder.

However, according to a source close to the case, the woman’s husband could face several charges which could include manslaughter, failing to report the accident, failing to render assistance and fleeing the scene of an accident.
A post mortem examination on the woman’s body revealed that she died from crushing injuries to her head caused by the wheel of a truck.
There was some speculation that Bridgette Gangadeen was murdered and her body dumped.
But even before the post mortem examination the police had already concluded that the woman was run over by the wheel of the truck her husband was driving, having been able to retrieve samples of her hair from the rear wheel.
Dwarka Gangadeen remains in custody after he was found hiding in a house at Enterprise, an hour after his wife’s body was discovered lying on the roadway outside the Vigilance Police Station early Sunday morning.
The fact that Dwarka Gangadeen called Dave, a popular grass track motorcyclist, fled the scene and had to be hunted down by the police had led to speculation that he was guilty of murder.
The couple had attended a nightspot in Enmore on Saturday night.
While there, Dwarka Gangadeen received a call on his cellular phone. This aroused his wife’s suspicions and the couple began to argue.
They eventually left for home where they continued their argument.
Around 02:00 hours, Dwarka Gangadeen received a call from a friend to take part in an early morning fishing expedition in Enterprise, a few miles away.
As he was about to leave the house with his Canter truck, his wife reportedly tried to prevent him, thinking that he was going to meet another woman.
When her protests failed, she joined the truck leaving their two sons alone at home.
Despite his wife’s presence in the vehicle, Dwarka Gangadeen allegedly proceeded towards Enterprise all the while arguing with his wife.
He told investigators that during the journey, his wife constantly threatened to jump from the moving truck.
As they approached the Vigilance Police Station the woman reportedly made good her threat and after opening the passenger side door of the truck’s cabin, she jumped from the moving vehicle.
Her husband told detectives that he felt the rear wheel of his truck run over the woman’s body.
He claimed that he panicked and drove away from the scene, leaving his wife clinging to life.
When asked why he did not render any assistance to his wife who was obviously badly injured, he claimed that he panicked and went to his friends in enterprise and tried to get them to go to the scene.
“I feel when I run over she but I panicked and call some friends fuh go and carry she to the hospital,” he told investigators.
This was certainly his downfall, for according to one of the investigators in the case, the dead woman’s husband should have stopped and reported the matter to the police.
Instead, he drove his truck back home, about a mile away, took a taxi and proceeded to enterprise where he hid.
“He went home and took a taxi. If a man feels he run over something, especially your wife, you will normally stop and check. It’s not a dog,” a senior investigator told Kaieteur News.
Ranks at the Vigilance Police Station were at first unaware that the woman’s body was lying outside the compound.
One female rank told Kaieteur News that she saw Gangadeen’s truck driving past and wondered where he was heading at that hour of the morning.
It was not until some other commuters went into the station and informed the ranks that a woman’s body was lying outside that they went into action.
Detectives appear to be inclined to believe the husband’s story after retrieving hair samples from the left side rear wheel of his truck and not finding any evidence of blood in the cabin.
They are also focusing on the fact that there was a huge pool of blood where the dead woman’s body lay, which almost convinced them that the woman died at that spot.
This newspaper understands that earlier this year, Dwarka Gangadeen was charged for assaulting his wife and was remanded to prison for seven days by a Georgetown Magistrate.
However, upon his return to court his wife declined to give evidence against him but the Magistrate still placed him on a bond to keep the peace for two years.

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