The body of a Herstelling resident was found lying on the public road in the village early yesterday with bruises about the upper body.
Lennox George’s lifeless body was found around 7.30 am, resting on what was once possibly a small bridge just off the public road at Herstelling, opposite a newly constructed housing scheme. Relatives said the man’s head was bruised as well as his neck. Family members were surprised at the man’s death and suggested that he was murdered and left there.
George, 26, who was mentally challenged, was last seen on Wednesday evening seen by a relative. He was walking toward the public road. The relative Candace Kangus said George was at his 152 Herstelling home on Wednesday in conversation with his brother Christopher. She related that the two of them eventually made the decision to visit a rum shop in the village around 6 pm.
Kangus left later for church. On her way there, while passing the rum shop, she enquired from the brother where George was. He told her George had left. Again, when she passed the shop after church, she asked for George and he was not there.
Sharon George, another cousin, told Stabroek News she last saw him around midday on Wednesday. George, she said, was born in Herstelling and went to live with an aunt in Mahdia. He returned to Herstelling four years ago after his aunt died. The man, she said, would do work for people in the neighbourhood and took care of himself. Relatives pointed out that he had cooked food on Wednesday that was still in the pot.
It was Sharon’s daughter who alerted her about the man’s whereabouts. The ten-year-old, the woman said, left home earlier than normal for school yesterday, “she doesn’t leave that early.” Sometime before, a man had told the family George’s body was on the public road at Herstelling.
George was described as a good-natured individual. He has left to mourn his mother, a sister and three brothers. (Christopher Yaw)
