Youths cleaning a trench alongside the Eccles Industrial Site road yesterday morning stumbled upon the decomposing body of a Bagotstown resident.
Dead is Ubert Howard, called ‘Uncle Mice,’ who was last seen on Friday when he told relatives he was heading to Providence to look after his pension book. He was found about a two-minute walk from where he lived.
According to police sources, there were no visible marks of violence on the man’s body but they are awaiting the results of a