THE badly decomposed body of an ex-convict was discovered in an abandoned house at Savannah Park Housing Scheme,  just before midday on Wednesday .

Leroy Hopkinson, who was last seen alive on Saturday, was discovered face downwards in the unfurnished living room of a one-flat building where he had moved into some months ago.

A neighbour, Dominique Calderia, had reported a stench which was emanating from the building, but had initially thought it was a dead four-footed animal.
But, on awakening on Wednesday morning the stench became unbearable  resulting in checks,  the discovery and a subsequent report to the Central Police Station where ranks responded promptly .

But, because of the state of decomposition, the body is currently lying in a box at the Stanleytown Cemetery where a post-mortem will be conducted shortly.
Meanwhile, according to the police, the now deceased Hopkinson was a specialist in break and enter and larceny offences.

He was  also charged  and convicted with robbery committed on  M. Ali Supermarket in  New Amsterdam   in 2015 and in 2014, while employed as a municipal garbage collector  robbed  Barbara Ramdeo, another town council employee of  $37,000 which represented  a weekly  ‘box hand’ that  was earlier collected  from several persons..