THE funeral of beheaded businessman Mohamed Farouk Kalamadeen was postponed from yesterday until further notice.

One of his relatives told the Guyana Chronicle that the assigned pathologist was unable to perform the post mortem examination on the body of the deceased, as scheduled, without proper identification.

Since the headless corpse was found on Wednesday, the identity of the missing 54-year-old man could not have been properly established without fingerprints, Police said.

Arrangements have since been made for the correct procedure to be observed to facilitate the autopsy which must precede the handing over of the corpse for burial.

Kalamadeen disappeared without a trace after leaving his Barrington Apartments, Houston, East Bank Demerara home, on April 2, for his daily jog.

He was presumed abducted and the discovery of the torso without a head was made 28 days later, on the parapet along Cowan Street, Kingston, Georgetown, on Wednesday.

Kalamadeen’s son, Irfan had claimed it as his father’s, from the general appearance with which he is familiar and the family had proceeded to prepare for the funeral, including placing the death announcement in the daily newspapers.