Relatives ID kidnappers. Fourth still on the run.
By Gyasi Gonzales
Friday, October 30th 2009

THE THREE kidnappers shot dead by the police on Wednesday were identified yesterday afternoon by their relatives. A fourth kidnapper remained on the run up to last night.

The men were identified as Wayne Rogers, Shervon “Pappy” Sayers and Kwame George-all from Canada, Laventille, and in their late teens. The police could not say whether the men had previous brushes with the law.

And after viewing their bodies at the Forensics Science Centre in St James yesterday, relatives of the men refused to speak to the press, some of them even claiming they did not know them despite having gone in to identify them.

The three were killed during a dramatic police rescue of jeweller Imran Mohammed-Khan on Wednesday. Mohammed-Khan was snatched from outside his family Fourth Street, Mt Lambert, home around 8.30 a.m. Police, thanks to the help of the victim’s brother-who followed the kidnappers after their daring abduction – eventually confronted the kidnappers in Carlsen Field. There was a shootout and the men were killed. Mohammed-Khan was rescued with only slight injuries from his ordeal.

Rogers, Sayers and George were later taken to the Chaguanas Health Facility, where they pronounced dead on arrival. The bodies had remained unidentified until relatives began stepping forward yesterday afternoon to claim them.

Shortly after 3 p.m., having identified the men, their family members were approached by the media for comment.

“We have nothing to say,” one woman said.

She then looked around at the other relatives and asked them, “Alluh have anything to say?”

They others shook their heads, saying no.

One young woman among the group was heard saying to her infant son, “Yuh see the police kill yuh fadder eh.”