A MAN who was known as a heavy drinker and suffers from seizures, was found floating in the Takutu River, Lethem, Region Nine on Tuesday.

Dead is Anael Spencer, 40, who is unemployed and of St Ignatius Village. Reports indicate that although Spencer was an epileptic, he was a heavy drinker. He lived with his 47-year-old cousin Flavius Thomas, a labourer of St Ignatius Village.

Reports indicate that Thomas claimed that Spencer would normally visit the river to take a bath on a daily basis.
However, in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Spencer returned home intoxicated and subsequently retired to bed.

Thomas, upon waking up that morning, did not see Spencer and knowing that he usually visits the river to bathe, decided to check there for him and found his clothes on the bank.
Thomas later discovered Spencer’s nude body floating in the river. The police were contacted and the body was taken to the Lethem Regional Hospital where it is awaiting an autopsy.