GEB driver found hanging from tree

Jul 05, 2010 News

The nude body of a 43-year-old GEB employee who had been missing since Saturday, was found hanging from a tree on a dam near D’Aguiar Housing Scheme at around 08:00 hrs yesterday.
Lynden Collins, a driver employed by GEB, and a resident of Princes Street, Lodge, apparently hanged himself with his own belt from a low tree branch, but relatives of the victim believe that he was murdered.
Persons who saw the remains also said that one of his hands was slashed.

Porters removing the body

Detectives and some GEB staff scoured the scene but failed to find the dead man’s clothing.
Kaieteur News understands that a man who was walking along the dam had spotted the corpse since Saturday afternoon, but only reported the matter to a friend yesterday.
GEB officials also confirmed that the vehicle that Collins was driving before he disappeared was found near the dam on Saturday.
The keys were in the ignition and GEB staffers took the vehicle to the security firm’s headquarters. But then the staff became suspicious after noticing bloodstains in the vehicle and took it to the Ruimveldt Police Station.
Telus Collins, one of the victim’s brothers, said that he last saw his sibling on Wednesday. He was driving the GEB bus and did not seem to be worried about anything.
The brother said that he was later told that Lynden Collins left for work on Friday night and failed to return home.

The vehicle at the Ruimveldt Police Station

According to Telus Collins, he was later informed that the bus his brother was driving had been found. A worried Telus Collins said that he then checked at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation but failed to locate his brother.
Shortly after, he spotted a GEB vehicle and stopped the staffers to enquire whether they had any information about his missing brother.
One of the staffers then informed him that Collin’s body had been found. He then went to the Lyken Funeral Parlour to identify it.
Asked if the victim had any problems, the brother said that this did not appear to be the case. He also said that his brother seldom confided in anyone.
The victim is survived by his parents, brothers and two children, aged 16 and seven.
Detectives are reportedly looking at a possible link between Collin’s death and the discovery of the mutilated body of a woman on the seawall aback of the NIS Sports Club on Saturday. Police are still trying to identify the woman whose throat bore two gaping wounds.
Police believe that she was slain some time Friday night.
The victim, who is of African ancestry, was wearing a yellow top, white three-quarter pants and yellow sandals.
She is estimated to be about 30 years old, is dark in complexion and is about five feet five inches in height.
The body is at the Lyken Funeral Parlour.