A nine-year-old boy was electrocuted on Boxing Day when he stepped on a live electrical wire in the Pattensen Squatting area, while returning home from an errand.
Lawrence Anthony Reid, a student of Redeemer Primary School was returning home sometime after 8 am after his mother had sent him to buy kerosene oil, when he walked into the path of the wire.
The wire, Audrey Plater, mother of the dead child said, was exposed on the track where her son was walking. Three of the neighbouring houses were connected to the