Bloated body of epileptic man found in neighbour’s  backyard

ON Tuesday evening, relatives of 24-year-old longshoreman, Alex Sobers, of 29 West La Penitence found his bloated body in the backyard of a neighbour, three days after he was last seen and  reported missing.

Sobers’ body, which was in the early stages of decomposition, was found head down in a trench, while the lower extremities were resting on land.

His mother, Samantha Leitch, told the Guyana Chronicle Wednesday afternoon that she was not even aware her son was missing for the past three days, as she does not live at the West La Penitence address with him.  She learnt of the development on Tuesday afternoon when a resident of the area showed up at her stand asking if they had found her son.

Leitch said her son works at the John Fernandes Wharf, but recently he had been working at another wharf as that one is under construction. According to the woman, her son would suffer seizures from time to time and collapse in drains along the roadway and at times in the burial ground, among other places.

She said too that they visited the police outpost to make a missing person report and shortly after she received a call from someone who said that they had seen the man walking in his briefs into the yard of a neighbour on Saturday.

The woman quickly returned to the area and called out at the gate of the neighbour and informed him that her son might have been trapped somewhere in his yard but he denied although the woman said she was getting a stench, which the man said was a ‘crappo’ (crapaud)  that he had killed.

The woman said that she told the man that a “crappo” does not smell like that and she rushed past him and began searching the backyard where she found her son, lying dead between a pit latrine and a coconut tree.

The police were called in and the owner of the place was told that a post-mortem examination would be conducted on the body tomorrow. The neighbour could be arrested if the post-mortem report indicates that the man had suffered any form of violence.

(By Leroy Smith )

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