TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Mahendra Sewnarine was discovered by a neighbour dangling from the ceiling of the lower flat of his home at #79 Village, Corentyne on Friday morning.His 23-year-old wife, shop keeper Nandanie Kocil, said he had left home at about 17:00h on Thursday to wash his car, and had come home at about midnight heavily intoxicated. She said she had refused to let him inside the house, since he usually misbehaves when intoxicated.

“He does come home drunk and behave bad, so me does don’t open the door; and he normally does sleep in the hammock. But the next day he would sober up, and we does talk about his drinking and he would normally ease up for a little while, then start up again. So me does do that fuh let him know I vex, to get him fuh stop drinking,” the woman said.

She revealed that her husband had in the past threatened to kill himself, but she had never taken the threat seriously.

Sewnarine was found hanging at the end of the very rope supporting the hammock that served as his bed on several occasions. The neighbour who had found him in that state said, “I went to the shop to by bread, and as I walk in the yard I didn’t notice the hammock, so me watch around and I see Mahendra sling up… I jump and run out the yard and start fuh scream.”

The police were alerted and the man’s body was taken to the Skeldon hospital, where he was pronounced dead.