Police in Regional Division No. 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam) are investigating the discovery of a decomposed body of a man that was found in an abandoned house at Henrietta, Essequibo Coast, on Monday morning.
A police press release stated that the discovery was made by a 64-year-old resident of Henrietta about 09:40 hrs on Monday, who reported to the Anna Regina Police Station that there had been a foul odour emanating from an abandoned house located north of his yard. As such, he went and made checks and observed the body of a man in a decomposing state.
Ranks of the Divisional Headquarters at Anna Regina and crime scene technicians visited the scene, the release said, where the body was observed to be about 60 percent decomposed. The body was photographed and taken to the Suddie Public Hospital, where it was officially pronounced dead by a doctor on duty.
The body is at the Suddie Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination. The police said investigators were told that the deceased was suspected to be a man (name unknown) who had no fixed place of abode.
