An Enmore Estate worker was found dead in an Enterprise drain yesterday morning.
Zahieed Abdool, called Jack, of 53 Block 12 Non Pariel, East Coast Demerara was last seen alive some time around 8 pm on Saturday.
At about 7.30 am the next day he was found lifeless in a drain just outside his father’s home in Enterprise. Abdool’s bicycle was retrieved a short distance from his body and police currently have the transport in their custody.
The 44-year-old man left his Non Pariel house shortly after 6 pm on Saturday to visit his father. Two hours later Abdool was in an intoxicated state when he left his father’s house and said he was going home.
Her husband, Savitrie Abdool said, took “his drinks every other weekend or so”. The man, according to her, did not have any health problems.
When Abdool did not return home that night, Savitrie said, she thought that he might have consumed too much alcohol and had decided to spend the night at his father’s house. This, she said, was not unusual.
However, on Sunday morning she called her father-in-law’s house to ask when Abdool was coming home. “Is then they gon tell me that he lef’ they house since the night before and they nah see he since,” Savitrie said.
The woman said that she called other relatives, the hospital and police in search of her husband. Shortly after she began her enquiries, Savitrie said, someone telephoned to say that a little boy had found Abdool in a drain just across the road from his relative’s house.
“He use to chop and plant at Enmore Estate,” she said.
She and her husband, the woman lamented, were married for just over 15 years. The union produced three children, the eldest is a 13-year-old girl and the youngest a baby a few months old. Abdool was the sole provider for his home.
In a press release issued yesterday afternoon the police said that they were investigating the man’s death.
