By Jeune Vankeric

THE electrocuted body of Timothy Ian Andrews was seen sprawled on his kitchen floor at Palmyra Village, Corentyne, with one hand clutching the fragment of an electric bulb, shortly after 08:30hrs on Friday morning. A black and red wire which was attached to an electrical point was around his feet when his aunt Melinda Mayers made the discovery at her nephew’s home.
Relatives observed that the 22-year-old Busta beverage employee had removed a bulb from the upper flat, and may have been attempting to connect the loose end of a wire on the lower flat, when he came in contact with 220 volts of electricity, sometime after 17:00hrs on Thursday afternoon.
Andrews lived alone, having moved from Wakenaam, Essequibo, five years ago in search of employment with his older brother Vivian, who has since married.
For Vivian, who sat motionless on a chair outside the two-storey wooded cottage, it was a bad dream he was experiencing, losing his only ‘easy going’ brother.
Mayers recalled calling, then knocking as she awaited a response from her husband’s nephew. She had gone to the house after Sarah Andrews, the mother of the deceased, kept telephoning her after failing to contact her younger son.
“I went to the house and I called and knocked, but there was no response. I returned home. But his mother called again saying something is wrong. So I returned to the house. I peeped through the opening space of the window and I observed that the back door was opened. I went around the house, and on entering through the backdoor, I saw him lying on the floor. He was dressed in his church clothes. I ran outside, called the neighbours and was told to call the police.”
“When the sleuths turned over the body, which was lying downwards I saw his hand was clutching a bulb. The bottom portion. Pieces of glass was around. Ian’s entire body got very dark. He was fair skinned,” she recalled.
This newspaper was told that the home is powered by 220 volts of electricity but with the use of a converter, the voltage is reduced to 110 voltage. It is believed that the converter had been turned off, resulting in the tragedy. Andrews leaves to mourn his parents Sarah and Jimmy. His body is currently at the Arokium Funeral Home awaiting an autopsy