Billing clerk Ian Timothy Andrews, 22, was apparently attempting to connect a bulb to the end of a loose wire when he was electrocuted at his home at Palmyra Village, East Canje on Thursday.
His lifeless body was discovered in his kitchen on the lower flat of his two-storey home just after 8.30am yesterday by his aunt, Melinda Mayers, who visited after several telephone calls to his cellular phone went unanswered.
According to Mayers, the mother of the now deceased, who lives at Wakenaam, Essequibo River, telephoned repeatedly requesting that, she [Mayers] visit her younger son, as something seemed to be amiss.
visit at 8.20am yielded no response but on a return trip minutes later, Mayers peered through one of the missing window panes on the lower flat and observed that the back door was opened.
Calling his name as she entered the doorway, she was shocked after seeing him lying face downwards. The youth, a staunch Jehovah’s Witness, was fully dressed. Mayers then alerted neighbours, who advised that the police be notified.
At the scene, crime scene investigators observed that Andrews’ hand clutched the bottom portion of a broken bulb. Relatives said he had apparently removed the bulb from the upper flat and was connecting it to a loose wire on the lower flat when tragedy struck some time on Thursday afternoon after he had returned home from work.
The deceased’s lone sibling, Vivian, was overwhelmed with grief. He recalled Ian leaving their home at Wakenaam over five years ago and travelling to Berbice in search of work.
Ian was employed by the Busta Beverage Company as a billing clerk.
He is survived by his brother and his parents, Sarah and Jimmy, who are expected to arrive shortly in Berbice.
His body is currently at the Arokium Funeral home awaiting a post-mortem examination.
