GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The police report that one among their colleagues, Sergeant Tony Sulker, took his personal life after consuming a toxic substance simply hours after concrete proof emerged, linking him to the stabbing demise of Legal professional-at-Regulation Richard Layne earlier this week.
In accordance with the spokesperson with the Guyana Police Drive, Mark Ramotar Sulker was pronounced useless on the Georgetown Public Hospital Company at about 9:15 (native time ) on Friday evening.
Investigators say they discovered clothes in a washer on the policeman’s house, and video surveillance recordings contradicted Sulker’s account of his location, the place he claimed that he found Layne’s physique slumped within the entrance seat of the automobile exterior of the house they shared.
Late Wednesday, Layne’s physique was present in his automobile with two stab wounds to his neck.
Sulker stated he was unaware of the demise of his roommate mate as a result of he fell asleep; he additional advised detectives that on waking up to make use of the lavatory, he regarded by the window and noticed Layne’s automobile on the bridge, and the deceased was sitting within the driver’s seat in a slumped place.
“Sulker denied that he was within the deceased’s firm on the evening in query. He additionally denied going out with the deceased or having any involvement within the homicide,” the Guyana Police Drive stated in its assertion.
Nevertheless, police investigations positioned Sulker at a special location within the now-deceased attorneys-at-law’s automobile. Investigators stated they examined a closed-circuit tv (CCTV) video recording from a close-by constructing and noticed {that a} male, suspected to be Tony Sulker, exited the Jaguar automobile’s again passenger seat and went right into a Restaurant.
A short time after, it was noticed that Sulker returned to the automobile, however there have been no cameras within the space to confirm the time the sufferer arrived at his residence.
In accordance with police, Sulker, in a written assertion, stated he met Layne about 4 years in the past at a operate on the Marriott Lodge in Georgetown. After they turned buddies, Layne requested him to maneuver in with him, and he began dwelling on the tackle about 4 years in the past. Sulker stated he and Layne by no means had any issues, and he denied that they’d an intimate relationship.
The late lawyer’s mom, Penelope Lewis, knowledgeable police on Friday that as she was about to go away her deceased son’s residence when she noticed Sulker drive into the yard at a quick charge and park his automobile within the storage.
“She stated she instantly sensed one thing was unsuitable and determined to show again. When she bought to the home, she noticed Sulker mendacity on the door on the underside flat of the stated home with what seemed to be vomit and a inexperienced substance about his physique,” she stated.
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