SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

The de­com­posed body of miss­ing taxi dri­ver Sher­az Ali was dis­cov­ered in a re­mote forest­ed area on Sun­day evening.

Po­lice were led to the scene by a 26-year-old sus­pect who re­mains in cus­tody.

The sus­pect, a car wash­er from School Trace, South Oropouche, re­port­ed­ly went to the po­lice sta­tion with his moth­er on Fri­day—days af­ter Ali dis­ap­peared.

He told of­fi­cers he had stabbed Ali twice dur­ing an ar­gu­ment in­side a car, af­ter which Ali drove away.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed and de­tained the man at the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion while the search con­tin­ued.

Around 5:30 pm on Sun­day (May 25, 2025), the sus­pect in­formed an of­fi­cer he want­ed to lead them to Ali's body.

Of­fi­cers fol­lowed him to a precipice in a re­mote forest­ed area, about 80 feet off a dirt and grassy road at To­tal Av­enue, Ger­a­hoo Trace, Fyz­abad. There, they found Ali’s body in an ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion.

Ali, who would have turned 65 on Tues­day (May 27), was last seen around 9 am on May 19 by his old­er broth­er at Seukaran Street, Siparia, dri­ving his brown Nis­san B14.

Ali’s broth­er re­port­ed him miss­ing the next day.

On May 21, po­lice found Ali’s ve­hi­cle in­tact and aban­doned in a forest­ed area off Quinam Road, Siparia.

Due to the con­di­tion of the body, the dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer was un­able to de­ter­mine whether it bore any vis­i­ble in­juries. An au­top­sy is sched­uled at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre this week.

Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.