The decomposing body of Kevin Singh, a 45-year-old auto body technician of Industry Crown Dam, was found in a trench at Ogle Embankment, East Coast Demerara, yesterday morning.
A Guyana Police Force release stated that at 6.30 am, ranks from Regional 4 ‘C’ promptly responded to information received from an unknown caller, who stated that the body was lying motionless in a trench at Ogle Embankment.
The body, which was identified as Singh’s, was clothed in a white tee-shirt and blue three-quarter jeans and was face down with the head and body submerged in the trench. The body was pulled out and checked for marks of violence, but none was visible.
In an interview with Stabroek News, Ann Singh, the mother of Kevin Singh, said that he left home on Sunday at about 9:30 am and was expected to return home for a family trip to Linden.
“He said ‘mommy you know what, I coming back.’ We were about to go Linden and he was to go with us. I ask he if he coming back to go Linden he said ‘yes I coming back just now.’ We wait, we wait, and we didn’t see he come, we left house about 12:30. Sunday night he nah come home. 10:30 me get up, me push the door and open he room and I look to see if he is inside, I ain’t see he. So I gauging the time, so I come out and sleep on one of the sofa just in case he come I can open the door. Sunday night I haven’t seen him come and Monday morning I say this is very strange I ain’t see me son come”, she said.
The woman stated that they began searching for Singh by contacting friends around the community. She added that the friends reported that they saw him and he left to go home Sunday night. “All of them said Kevin was drunk and they claim he so good to them. You see a person in that condition you couldn’t give him a drop home or call for a taxi and when it come here I would pay the bill right. The guard lady said that when Kevin walk through Plindola school he was drunk, he coulda hardly walk”, the mother lamented.
“The police said that them got to do the post mortem because when them find the body he bleeding through he nose a lot. When we go he bleeding through he nose. The guard lady say she saw Kevin like about 7:30/8 o’ clock. This morning we get a call saying a body was found.”
Singh’s body was transported to the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, where it is awaiting a post-mortem examination.
