ALVIN Royston Daly, a father of six of Anns Grove, East Coast Demerara was killed sometime late Sunday night and early Monday morning.

His badly chopped remains were found at a location at Puruni, in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) where he has been working for some eight months now, according to his relatives.

Based on an image was seen by this publication, the man was chopped in the face, torso, legs, hands and head.

From all indications, persons who worked close to where he did, saw his body lying along a trail and brought it out to the ‘Landing’, then reported the matter to the police.
His reputed wife, Shonnett Andrews told the Guyana Chronicle from her Anns Grove Home on Monday that she was sleeping that morning when her son woke her up, and broke the sad news to her.

She said that on hearing what happened, she immediately got out of bed and went downstairs, where a villager was waiting to show on his cell-phone an image of her husband’s mangled and lifeless body.

The sight proved too much for Andrews, and she immediately broke down.

While up to the time we spoke with her, the family had receive very little information about what really took place, word is that Daly was set upon by no less than four men.

From the little the Guyana Chronicle was able to pick up, Daly was due to travel out of the interior one week ago along with his 22-year-old son who worked in the same area. The young man, who identified himself as Alfatir Daly, said that he and his father were working an area, but all they were doing was just making small amounts of money to eat, so he decided to ease off the mining work and went out to work at a shop.

The young man said that after working for a month at the shop, he managed to raise some money, and told his father that it was time for them to leave the interior and head home, but his father opted to stay on a bit “to make something else.”

The youngster said that after waiting two days to hear from his father, but that was not the case and the only thing he heard was the death new on Monday morning with an accompanying photograph.

Asked whether he knew of anyone in the area with whom his father might have had a misunderstanding, the lad replied in the affirmative, but was quick to point out that the matter appeared to have been resolved.

He, however, told of another incident involving a man who worked closely with him and his father and owed another man quite a sum of money, but that matter, too, was eventually settled.

Up to late Monday, the police were still said to be in the area conducting investigations in relation to the matter, as they seek to bring the killers of the father of six to justice so that the family can have the closure they need to move forward.