Kester Guilliams, a 28-year-old man of Lot 61 Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, allegedly drowned during a creek outing with friends on Sunday at about 16.19 hours, along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.
According to the police, their enquiries disclosed that Guilliams and some of his friends went to the creek, where they consumed alcohol and socialized. At about 15.30 hours, Guilliams left to swim in the water. Shortly after, the friends received information that someone was encountering difficulties in the water and had disappeared.
Public-spirited persons formed a search party, and Guilliams’ motionless body was later found in the creek.
It was removed from the creek and examined, but no mark of violence was seen. The body was taken to the Diamond Hospital where Guilliams was pronounced dead.
Stabroek News spoke to the mother of the deceased, Miriam Guilliams.
She lamented: “He don’t know to swim, on Sunday afternoon I receive a cell phone call saying that he is at Diamond Hospital. We went there and that is where we find out he died. He died in all of his clothes, his jersey, long pants and even his haversack, and we find it hard to believe that he went to swim with the clothes on.”
The body is presently at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
