The body of an Albion Estate cane harvester, who went missing on Friday, was discovered yesterday afternoon in a canal at Hampshire backlands.
His family is calling on the police to investigate the matter as the information provided to them is not adding up.
Hukumchan Inshanally, also known as “Iles”, 56, a cane harvester attached to the Albion Estate and of Lot 4 C Persaud Street, Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, went missing on Friday.
His partially decomposed body was discovered in a canal at the Hampshire Middle Walk in the backlands around 1.30 pm.
Initially, the man’s relatives were told that after completing his daily task he took a different route from other cane harvesters who were present.
According to his wife, Sharda Inshanally, a foreman who her husband worked under last, had visited her home on Friday evening after he went missing and told her that the man left through the Williamsburg crossing. “He say how he pass the work after me husband done and check he (husband) name and that the other boys them take one way and he (husband) alone take another way”.
She added, “Me husband na know fa swim why he go go cross he alone and take he own way, he go follow he partner them together and cross the canal”.
The woman is calling on the police to conduct a thorough investigation as she believes something is amiss.
She said that her husband left home on Friday morning to head to work. “He tell me seh he coming back early when he a ready to go to work”.
However, the woman noted, that after the man did not return she began to worry. “Me tell me son to go ask he partner a back see if that man come home or if them see me husband but me son go about three partner and them say them come early and them na see he that me husband na work with them”.
She said, she then went over to a fourth colleague who told her the same.
The woman said, a search was immediately launched and a missing person’s report was filed at the Rose Hall Police Outpost. “Me daughter and son in law go and the police ain’t doing anything, no searching but the estate boat them come and go down and make a search and them ain’t find he”.
“Three times a day them a go and look with estate boat without police and them na find he”, she stated.
The emotional woman while describing Inshanally as a caring husband and father said that every evening the two of them would have dinner together, after which, they would head to the upper flat of their home, where they would watch the nightly news and then head to bed.
Both the police and estate have launched separate investigations, sources confirmed yesterday afternoon.
