GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The police report that one of their colleagues, Sergeant Tony Sulker, took his own life after consuming a poisonous substance just hours after concrete evidence emerged, linking him to the stabbing death of Attorney-at-Law, Richard Layne earlier this week.
According to the spokesperson with the Guyana Police Force, Mark Ramotar Sulker was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation at about 9:15 (local time ) on Friday night.
Investigators say they found clothing in a washing machine at the policeman’s home and video surveillance recordings contradicted Sulker’s account of his location where he claimed that he discovered Layne’s body slumped in the front seat of the car outside of the home they shared.
Late Wednesday, Layne’s body was found in his car with two stab wounds to his neck.
Sulker said he was unaware of the the death of his roommate because he fell asleep, he further told detectives that on waking up to use the bathroom, he looked through the window and say Layne’s car on the bridge and the deceased sitting in the driver’s seat in a slumped position.
However, police investigations placed Sulker at a different location in the now late attorney-at-law’s car. Investigators said they examined a closed circuit television (CCTV) video recording from a nearby building and observed that a male, suspected to be Tony Sulker, exited the Jaguar car’s back passenger seat and went into a Restaurant.
A short while after, it was observed that Sulker returned to the car but there were no cameras in the area to verify the time the victim arrived at his residence.
The late lawyer’s mother, Penelope Lewis informed police on Friday that as she was about to leave her deceased son’s residence when she observed Sulker drove into the yard at a fast rate and parked his car in the garage.
“She said she immediately sensed something was wrong and decided to turn back. When she got to the house, she observed Sulker lying at the door on the bottom flat of the said house with what appeared to be vomit and a green substance about his body” she said.
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