-relatives baffled
Relatives yesterday identified the bloodied body that was found on the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commission a day earlier as Llewelyn Fitzgerald Campbell called Elton of Lamaha Street, Kitty.
As the police seek clues to the man’s murder they have received reports that the 45-year-old Campbell had friends living in the vicinity where he was found. The man’s relatives though remained baffled over why or who committed the gruesome murder.
Up to press time last evening, no suspect had been identified.
The man who stumbled upon the body had told the media that he was walking along the seawall around 8 am when he spotted it and he informed a friend.
He said the man was “crimped up” on his side and there was a metal object resembling a knife (but smaller) sticking out from a hole in his neck.
The man said the dead man’s face and hands had numerous cuts and the blood was still fresh.
Campbell’s sister who lives in Linden told this newspaper that he left the mining town in December last year saying that he was going to Cayenne (French Guiana) where someone had gotten him a job. Yesterday she learnt he never left the country but was living somewhere in Kitty.
She said that it was a cousin who called inquiring about him that prompted her to buy a copy of the Kaieteur News yesterday which had carried a photograph of the man’s body. She said that it was a ring that was on the hand of the man in the picture that instantly confirmed that it was her brother.
Campbell she said got that ring from his brother 11 years ago and has never taken it off.
The young woman recalled that after her brother, who is the eldest of six children, left Linden where he is originally from she had been unable to reach him on his cellular phone.
She could not understand what would have prompted his brutal death.
It was several residents who lived close to the city who turned up at the Lyken’s Funeral Home to make a positive identification after seeing a photograph of the corpse in the newspaper.
One relative Joylyn De Florimonte told Stabroek News that when she saw the body at the parlour a gaping wound to the throat was evident.
She last saw Campbell two Sundays ago when he attended a cousin’s birthday celebration. According to her on that occasion, Campbell was joyful and didn’t give them any indication that he had troubles.
De Florimonte later said that he was a trader who would buy clothes in Suriname and sell them here. However during the Christmas holiday season he helped friends pluck chickens in Bourda Market.
She said that he was making plans to go back to Suriname shortly.
“This thing baffling a lot. He was slaughtered as through he was a pig… It is so suspicious because it happen so sudden and then the circumstances”, the grieving woman told this newspaper. Like Campbell’s sister and other relatives, she could not come up with a possible motive for the man’s murder and did not know of any problems he had with anyone. Campbell also leaves to mourn his mother Lennell Fraser who resides in Trinidad.
This murder bears some similarities to that of actor Joel Fraser who was found in a pool of blood on the Liliendaal seawall wearing a t-shirt and his underpants. His throat was slit, his face was bashed in and the attacker had used a knife to inflict other injuries.
Though several persons were questioned, police were unable to make a breakthrough.
It is unclear if the police are investigating a possible linkage between the two.
