Raoul Melville, the Bagotstown taxi-driver whose body was discovered in his home last Thursday, suffered multiple blunt trauma to the head, which led to his death, an autopsy has found.
A post-mortem examination was performed on Friday by Dr. Nehaul Singh, who determined that Melville, 31, of Lot 43 Norton Street, Bagotstown, died of brain haemorrhage due to multiple blunt trauma to the head.
The father of three was discovered by his 11-year-old son at about 8.45 am last Thursday.
It was reported that the western door was open and the bedroom was ransacked. However, there was no sign of a forced entry.
Melville’s mother told this newspaper that the man was last seen on Wednesday.
He went to his home to sleep. The next day when the woman sent his son, who lives with her, to relay a message to him, the boy returned to her and told her his father was not alive.
The mother said that she went to check the body and that blood was running from his nose, he had scratches on his back, and his head was bleeding.
There were also bruises on his neck, which she said looked like marks caused by strangulation.
She also said that there were no occurrences during the night that were out of the normal and that on the day the man was allegedly murdered, his family who would usually be home, had left to visit family, hence the man was home alone.
She added that the man had a previous altercation with a man who hit his car and the family is now suspicious that this may be linked to Melville’s fate.
