The decomposing body of a man was yesterday morning discovered in his locked home at Mora Street, Vryheid’s Lust Squatting area, East Coast Demerara.
There is no foul play suspected in the death of Leron Sancho, who lived alone in a tiny apartment at the bottom flat of a two-storey house.
Police said that the “partially decomposed” body of Sancho, 30, was found around 8:45 am. It is being stored at the Lykens’s Funeral Home until a post-mortem examination, expected to be conducted next Monday.
Stabroek News was told by employees of a Plaisance furniture-making shop where Sancho worked that on Tuesday he reported to his supervisor that he was feeling unwell. He was later sent home in a taxi around noon.
One woman, who did not want her name published, said that the man was hospitalised about two years ago. He had sickle cell disease. She told this newspaper that she became worried after Sancho did not turn up for work since Wednesday and she decided to send two employees to his home to check on him. The woman said that the employees called her shortly after and informed that Sancho had died. She said that from all indications, Sancho’s death was not suspicious, while noting that he was a sickly man.
Meanwhile, Carol Connell told Stabroek News that she first became aware of a pungent smell on Thursday but dismissed it as that of a dead rat. Yesterday morning, there was a stronger stench but again she dismissed it as nothing out of the ordinary. Subsequently, she and her daughter decided to investigate the origin of the smell and ended up close to Sancho’s apartment.
Connell frequents the upstairs apartment.
“It (the smell) was getting worse, so ah go and check by the gutter and we see these flies deh plenty so we go round to his apartment and we see flies going in and out of his window,” she recalled.
When they ventured to the front of the apartment, there was a swarm of flies and despite several called for Sancho there was no response. It was at that point that the police were informed and when ranks came and investigated, they found the man’s body inside the house.
Another neighbour, Dolly Bobb, recalled hearing “wares knocking” sometime on Tuesday night but thought little of it, since this was a norm. She too remembered the pungent odour. Residents said that Sancho had been living in the area for about six years and had very few visitors. They described him as a mannerly individual who kept to himself. Stabroek News was unable to contact his relatives, who are said to reside in Berbice
