DPP recommends cop be charged over MFK murder

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has recommended that a policeman be criminally charged in connection with the murder of well-known businessman Mohamed F Khan while another should face departmental charges for his role in the crime.

The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on Wednesday returned the file in the Mohamed Feroze Khan murder case to the Police. Guyana Times reported on Sunday that a former Assistant Police Commissioner and a Sergeant who were implicated in the murder of Khan are expected to face Lennox Wayne also called “Two Colours” – the murder accused who claimed that he was contracted to kill the now dead businessman.

The two former Policemen were detained last Friday evening, but were subsequently released on Saturday after denying any involvement in the businessman’s murder. The houses of the two men were also searched, but there were nothing substantial that could be tendered as evidence of the criminal act.

A senior Police source had told the Guyana Times International that the two men were expected to come face to face with Wayne who disclosed that he was offered Gy$500,000 to get rid of the businessman back in July 2014. He added that the accusations made by Wayne are merely assumptions after he recalled seeing a vehicle similar to that of the former Assistant Police Commissioner parked obliquely opposite Khan’s home on the West Bank of Demerara.

The two men were arrested after telephone records showed that they were in contact with the now dead man, but based on reports gathered, the two men provided alibis for August 9, 2014 – the day the former MFK Trading boss disappeared.

The decomposed, headless corpse of Khan was found on September 22, 2014 at Old Road, Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown. The head was reportedly found by workers attached to the Public Works Ministry who were weeding in the area. It was reportedly in a black plastic bag and was being carried by a dog. Upon the discovery, the men went to the area from where the dog came and stumbled upon the body. The businessman who resided in Venezuela after selling his Hadfield Street business left that country on August 21, 2014 to visit his Guyanese attorney.

He was expected to spend five days in Guyana and return to his three children and wife. After his disappearance, his family members contacted several of his friends, but no one had seen him. After the discovery, relatives of the businessman turned up at the Lyken Funeral Home and positively identified the remains as those of Khan by the underwear and a belt that were found on the corpse. Investigators believe that the man was beheaded before his body was dumped in the area.