A DAY after scrap metal dealer Ryan Jones reportedly plunged into the ‘Blacka’ (Lamaha Canal) for an afternoon swim after a game of football on Emancipation Day, police are awaiting the result of a post-mortem examination to decide the way forward in the probe into his death.‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken said a post-mortem would be performed on the body on Wednesday, but he noted that the body bore no marks of violence, and so no one was arrested for questioning.

He added that statements were taken from the relevant persons, so police are aware of the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Twenty-seven-year-old father of one, Ryan Jones, had been a resident of Barr Street, Albouystown. He had taken a plunge into the dark waters of the Lamaha Canal, called the ‘Blacka’, after telling some friends he was with that he was a swimmer.

He did not surface after the plunge, taken at about 13:40hrs on Monday, and a search exercise was activated by the same friends. He was retrieved in an unconscious state by one of his friends, and was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.