The sus­pect in­volved in the crash which claimed the life of Neil Bal­lai, a dri­ver with the Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny, has been re­leased from po­lice cus­tody with­out be­ing charged.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion’s se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent Garvin Si­mon told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that the sus­pect—said to be a sol­dier—was ques­tioned and re­leased some­time over the week­end. Po­lice sources said there was not enough ev­i­dence to lay charges.

But Si­mon said the nec­es­sary doc­u­men­ta­tion was still be­ing put to­geth­er. He al­so men­tioned that the au­top­sy re­port on Bal­lai’s cause of death is pend­ing and will play an im­por­tant part in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Si­mon added that once all the doc­u­ments are com­plet­ed, ar­rests and charges can then fol­low.

Mean­while, the au­top­sy for Bal­lai was post­poned to to­day, leav­ing rel­a­tives dis­ap­point­ed and up­set.

The post­pone­ment, ac­cord­ing to Bal­lai’s rel­a­tive, was due to the fail­ure of the po­lice to es­cort the body to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day morn­ing.

“The po­lice are keep­ing us back right now from fi­nal­is­ing the last rites and it is very dis­ap­point­ing.

“We were at the Foren­sic Cen­tre since 7 am (Tues­day) and then had to be told to come back to­mor­row ear­ly be­cause the body was still in Cara­pichaima,” Bal­lai’s rel­a­tive said.

She, how­ev­er, praised and thanked of­fi­cials from the Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny for their as­sis­tance.

“They have been with us, sup­port­ing us so far through it all. But it’s the po­lice, they are the ones keep­ing us back. We haven’t even got­ten any up­dates con­cern­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion so far.”

Bal­lai, of Ec­cles Trace in Spring Vil­lage, Val­sayn, was dri­ving the com­pa­ny’s Isuzu truck along the Solomon Ho­choy High­way last Thurs­day morn­ing when the dri­ver of a black Hyundai Ion­ic at­tempt­ed to over­take.

As the dri­ver of Hyundai Ion­ic swerved be­tween lanes, the car hit the back of the Isuzu truck caus­ing it to veer off the road and land on its side, pin­ning Bal­lai. He died on the scene from his in­juries.

The in­ci­dent was cap­tured on an­oth­er mo­torist’s dash­cam and shared on so­cial me­dia. That footage helped in­ves­ti­ga­tors in iden­ti­fy­ing the dri­ver who did not stop at the scene of the ac­ci­dent.

Last Fri­day, the T&T Reg­i­ment con­firmed that the dri­ver was one of its mem­bers and had vol­un­tar­i­ly turned him­self in.