The body of a Profit, West Coast Berbice farmer was discovered after 7 am yesterday among some bushes at Letter ‘T’, Mahaicony after he apparently crashed head-on into a sign post.
Gordon Rickford Nurse, 50, was returning home some time on Tuesday night after a drinking spree at a shop at another Mahaicony location when tragedy struck.
A relative, Abeja Trotman, said the indentation from the post was visible on the man’s forehead and his neck was swollen and twisted on one side. The badly mangled motorcycle, CE 8180 was found nearby.
He said he left for the scene with his aunt, Camille Long, Nurse’s reputed wife of 33 years after she called to inform him about the accident. They passed the scene and could not locate it immediately.
The distressed Long told Stabroek News that a neighbour received a call from a resident and gave her the news. The resident happened to spot the motorcycle among some bushes as he was passing and upon closer inspection he noticed the body.
She related that her husband left home on Monday morning to work on his farm at Foulis Village, nearby and she left to vend their produce at Bourda market.
When she got home he was not there. She noticed that some money was also removed from the home and she assumed that he had gone out to “drink.”
She learnt that he had first been drinking at Huntley, Mahaicony. When he left there he stopped to speak to his brother from that area around 8:30 pm.
Instead of returning home then, he stopped at the shop and continued to consume alcohol. Some men who were in the shop, related that they tried unsuccessfully to hide the key to prevent him from riding the motorcycle home in his drunken state.
Meanwhile, the woman said she was sad when she learnt that a former resident had died in the crash on Sunday at Mon Repos. On Monday afternoon, she said, she went over to his mother’s house to sympathize with her, “not knowing that my accident was on the way.” (Shabna Ullah)
