–the second such find in 36 hours

RANKS of the Ruimveldt Police Station were called to the scene of an Albouystown apartment building early last evening to investigate what appeared to be the decomposing body or an occupant of one of the apartments.

Upon their arrival, the police entered the apartment by removing a chain which was wrapped around the door to the apartment. They discovered the decomposing remains of a man known as “Buttery”.

Residents reported last seeing the man on Saturday, and it was not until persons liming around the area began smelling something strange yesterday that it was realised that the man had not been seen for about three days. The police were summoned, and they discovered his body lying on his bed in a very untidy apartment littered with clothing, lighters, cigarette butts, newspapers and empty bottles, among other things.

The police are treating the man’s death as resulting from natural causes because they reportedly found no marks of violence on his body.

When this publication visited the area last evening, one man was overheard commenting that the man may have died as a result of the lashes he had received sometime last week. The resident did not go into details about what lashes he was talking about, and who might have beaten the man.

A post-mortem is expected to be performed on the remains on Friday.

This is the second body to be discovered in the space of 36 hours. On Monday, the badly decomposed remains of a male was discovered near a cemetery at Cummings Lodge, with its head in a plastic bag a short distance away.
Investigators removed the body from the area with its discovered head on a car mat. The body was clad in what appeared to be a long black pants even as the jersey that the individual was wearing at the time he met his demise began rotting on his remains.

Investigators are said to be working on the theory that the man might have been murdered somewhere else and dumped at the location.

Recently, the police were also called to the discovery of yet another decomposed body — this time a female — which is widely believed to be that of missing secondary school teacher Nyozi Goodman. While Goodman’s mother has said that the remains which were discovered are those of her daughter owing to items which were found next to the body that relatives identified as belonging to the woman, the police were still forced to send samples of the remains to Trinidad and Tobago to come to the unmistakable conclusion of whose remains the body is.

(By Leroy Smith)