A post mortem performed yesterday on the body of Dacwaun Sutherland, of ‘C’ Field, Sophia, by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh, revealed the cause of death as asphyxiation due to drowning, compounded by compression injury to the neck. The body of the schoolboy was found Thursday in a canal at ‘C’ Field, Sophia.
Investigations are continuing, Police said.
Zon Park, mother of the child, told the Guyana Chronicle her only child left her workplace on an errand about 13:00 hrs the day before, to take some meat home and return with some things, including two bottles for them to fetch water home that evening.
The grieving woman said, usually, her son, after school, would stay with her until she finished work as a security guard at the Digicel Tower in Sophia and they would go home together.
Other residents confirmed that they regularly see mother and son walking to and from school and work.
On Wednesday, the boy was seen alive in the village up to about 16:00 hrs, playing with other children.
It was about an hour after his mother began enquiring about him that a search began, and after she had reported him missing at Turkeyen Police Station.
Dacwaun was clad only in his underwear when pulled out of the trench, but he had left his mother’s workplace dressed in a vest, camouflage pants, footwear, a bag containing some personal effects and two water bottles, she said.