Police are currently investigating the discovery of the partially decomposed body of a man in a Strathspey canal on the East Coast of Demerara.
Up to press time the man had not been officially identified but he was found with a national ID card and was clad in the clothes of a Lodge Housing Scheme man, Deshawn McLean, 26, who was last seen by his family last week.
According to Guyana Police Force Public Relations Officer Jairam Ramlahkhan, the man’s body was found at around 7.30 am, clad in only a pair of brown long pants and with a haversack.
Upon perusal of the remains, ranks of the Guyana Police Force unearthed the ID card.
When Stabroek News visited McLean’s home last evening, his aunt, Hazel McLean, had just received the information about the discovery of the body.
“Last week he turn and I ask he weh he goin and…he said ‘Yeah, I ain’t going nowhere far… so after we see he ain’t come back we seh that he gone to the hospital,” the distraught woman explained.
The woman mentioned that the 26 year-old man was mentally unstable and would usually go to the hospital to uplift his medication.
Another relative of the deceased noted that she had just received a call informing her that they found her cousin’s body on the East Coast. “So she call me and ask me wa clothes Deshawn left with and I tell she a brown pants and a red haversack on he back and she tell me they find he body…and everything that he left with,” the relative mentioned.
Up to press time, the body was at the Lyken Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination.
