A list­ed John Doe at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal turned out to be a miss­ing man from Gol­con­da. How­ev­er, po­lice sus­pect that Kesther Ra­goo­bar, 29, was bad­ly beat­en, thrown out of a ve­hi­cle and left for dead at the side of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way in Beetham hours af­ter win­ning $25,000 at a casi­no.

Ra­goo­bar was last seen on Sat­ur­day by his moth­er Es­ther, 57, when he left his Gooray Trace, Gol­con­da home with friends to lime some­where in north Trinidad.

When Ra­goo­bar failed to re­turn home, his fam­i­ly grew wor­ried and lodged a miss­ing per­son’s re­port with the po­lice. Un­known to them at the time, Ra­goo­bar had al­ready been found by passers-by on Sun­day morn­ing and tak­en to the hos­pi­tal in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion. Med­ical of­fi­cials found no iden­ti­fi­ca­tion on him be­fore they con­duct­ed an emer­gency op­er­a­tion and lat­er list­ed him as a John Doe.

The hos­pi­tal sub­se­quent­ly sent out a re­lease with his de­scrip­tion ask­ing for help in iden­ti­fy­ing him. But it was not un­til days af­ter that his moth­er was told of a de­scrip­tion sent out by the hos­pi­tal and re­alised it fit his. Es­ther told Guardian Me­dia that she and oth­er rel­a­tives went to the hos­pi­tal hop­ing to find her son on­ly to be told he had suc­cumbed to his in­juries. The fam­i­ly viewed Ra­goo­bar’s body in the hos­pi­tal’s mor­tu­ary and pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied him.

“I gone to iden­ti­fy the body and when I gone that was my son. I say wait, that’s not my son be­cause that’s not how he was; he foot cut out, he two hand break, they say he had a hole in the back of he head and big, he swell big,” a griev­ing Es­ther said.

An au­top­sy done the Foren­sic Sci­ences Cen­tre in St James re­vealed Ra­goo­bar died from mul­ti­ple blunt trau­mat­ic in­juries.

An in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cer yes­ter­day con­firmed that while they are yet to de­ter­mine a mo­tive for the killing they strong­ly sus­pect foul play. Of­fi­cers said they re­ceived crit­i­cal in­for­ma­tion about Ra­goo­bar’s where­abouts and the peo­ple he was with while he was lim­ing. They are ex­pect­ed to car­ry out sev­er­al in­ter­views soon in their con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

A close friend who wished not to be iden­ti­fied yes­ter­day said in­for­ma­tion reach­ing them in­di­cates that Ra­goo­bar was gam­bling the night he went out and won $25,000 at a casi­no in Port-of-Spain. Based on the in­for­ma­tion reach­ing Ra­goo­bar’s friend, they be­lieve he may have been beat­en, robbed and left for dead.

Ra­goo­bar’s old­er sis­ter Alana yes­ter­day ques­tioned who would have done this to her lit­tle broth­er.

“He was a good, good fa­ther. He nev­er dis­re­spect no­body. He does talk with every­body good. But you see this in­ci­dent what hap­pened, I can’t take it. Who re­al­ly do this to my broth­er?” she asked.

“We was close—like a twin. When my broth­er come, he does touch my head, he does play with my head, he does hug me up, he does come by me and eat food. He’s a kind of per­son like that.”

Ra­goo­bar’s wife Mur­tee Son­ny, 31, de­scribed him as a good hus­band and fa­ther to their nine-year-old son.

The fam­i­ly is call­ing for swift jus­tice in the mat­ter.

Po­lice of­fi­cers are ask­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic who may have any in­for­ma­tion to con­tact them at 555, 999, 800-TIPS or 482-GARY.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.