A part-time minibus conductor was early yesterday morning found dead in a trench near his home.
Dead is Parmanand Motilall, 47, of 349 Enterprise, GuySuCo Housing Scheme, who is said to have been missing since Sunday afternoon.
According to the man’s neighbour, Elesha, “Smud boy,” as she called him, left for a floodlight cricket game at the Enterprise Community Centre Ground on Sunday afternoon. Elesha related that she too went to the game and she saw Motilall, but after a while “he disappear” and she didn’t see him again until yesterday morning.
Elesha, along with Motilall’s sister, told Stabroek News that at around 6am yesterday, someone from the neighbourhood alerted them that a body was in the trench “by de bridge” and they left to see who it was.
Upon their arrival, it was Elisha who recognised her neighbour by his attire.
She said that on Sunday, Motilall was wearing a pair of green track pants, an orange t-shirt, white boots, and a silver watch, “and that was exactly what he was wearing this morning [yesterday].” When he was found, one of his boots was off his foot, lying on the bridge. According to those who viewed the body at the scene, there were no visible marks of violence about his body.
His relatives and neighbours believed that Motilall might have been drinking too much at the game and, in his drunken state, fell into the nearby trench. Elisha also divulged that Motilall had confided in her that he often times suffered from “land sick[ness],” where he would temporarily lose his memory.
Prior to his demise, Motilall was living with his mother. He had no wife or children. His body is at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour awaiting a Post-Mortem Examination.
