Police Force athletics coach stabbed to death

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 December 2019, 17:32 by Writer

An athletics coach and rural constable attached to the Police Sports Club was found dead with several stab wounds at D’Urban Park early this morning.

He has been identified as 28-year-old Seon Anthony ‘Cenestro’ Burry of Lot 194 Section A, Field 7, South Sophia.

The Guyana Police Force said Burry was found dead at D’Urban Park about 30 metres north of the southern stand.

The lifeless body of the constable was discovered between 03:30 hrs and 05:45 hrs Tuesday with multiple stab wounds to his neck in the vicinity of the throat, a police report stated.

Investigators were told that Burry left his home at about 03:30 hrs to train athletes at the D’Urban Park facility where he met his demise.

The body is at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation mortuary awaiting a post mortem examination.

Burry was enlisted in the Force as a rural constable on 17th July, 2015.

The Guyana Police Force says investigators are working to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice.