Watery grave: Body found inside car at Usine pond

Richard Beharry, the 27-year-old man found inside an AD station wagon submerged in the Usine pond in Ste Madeleine yesterday, had a long criminal record. Beharry, also called Smalls, worked as a private-for-hire driver at different routes in south Trinidad.

“From small he was in and out of jail,“ said his 45-year-old mother Sumattie Beharry. “Just August he came out of jail. I think it was for drunk driving and cursing someone. Richard had different types of charges like for possession of stolen items.”

Reports are shortly before 11 am yesterday, a couple from Borde Narve, Princes Town, went fishing at the pond, saw the vehicle almost submerged and contacted police and fire officers.

Fire personnel from the Search and Rescue Unit fished out the car and police found Beharry in the back seat with his hands and feet bound. There were also injuries to the head and a brick on the vehicle’s accelerator.

Supt Rohan Pardasie, ASP Peter Ramdeen, Insps Don Gajadhar and Darryl Corrie, Sgt Anil Sankar and Cpl Narine Bisnath and other police from Homicide Bureau (Region III), Ste Madeleine and Southern Division visited the scene.

Initially, police believed Beharry lived at Green Acres, San Fernando.

But when Newsday visited the address, his mother said he lived at Ste Madeleine. He was not married and did not have any children.

“I don’t know where in Ste Madeleine he was living. Yesterday (Sunday) evening he was here. He ate some food, washed the car and I did not know when he left,” the mother of four said.

An autopsy is expected to be done at the Forensic Science Centre, St James today.