-mother seeks justice

THE lifeless body of a young athletics coach was found with multiple stab wounds at Durban Park in the city at daybreak on Tuesday.
Dead is Seon Anthony ‘Cenestro’ Burry, a 28-year-old athletics coach of Lot 194, Section ‘A’, South Sophia.

Police said the man was killed north of the southern stand at Durban Park, between 03:30hrs and 05:45hrs on Tuesday.
He was discovered with multiple stab wounds to his neck, in the vicinity of the throat.

According to the police, information received is that at about 03:30hrs today, Burry left his residence to train athletes.
Burry’s mother, Jennifer Benn, at her Sophia home, told the Guyana Chronicle that early on Tuesday, someone informed the family that her son was lying motionless at the Durban Park. She said she thought her son had fainted during training.

“I said get a bottle of water because I thought maybe he run and get dehydrated and fall down,” she said. Benn said when she arrived at the scene, her son was lying motionless with blood stains on his skin.
Benn said that Burry joined the Guyana Police Force as a constable and then he started coaching young athletes, an area he specialises in. She said he coaches children daily, even as she described him as a “cool” and “kind-hearted” individual.

“He trains children. At present he was preparing children for some games, some Carifta Games [CARIFTA Games] or something so,” the composed woman noted.
She said she was told that her son was listed to receive a ‘coach of the year’ award from the police force this week and she questioned why her son was killed the day before the awards ceremony. She said other coaches within the force were envious of her son’s performance as a coach.

The Guyana Police Force expressed condolences to the immediate family, relatives and friends of the deceased whom the force noted, was very much committed to his field of work

The police vowed to bring the perpetrator(s) of Burry’s brutal slaying to justice.
Burry’s body is at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation awaiting a post-mortem examination.