POLICE in Regional Division No.2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam) are investigating the discovery of a decomposed body at Henrietta, Essequibo Coast.
According to information from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), a 64-year-old resident of Henrietta, on Monday morning, reported to the Anna Regina Police Station that he was getting a foul smell emanating from an abandoned house located north of his yard.

“As such, he went and made checks and observed the body of a male in a decomposing state (with flies and worms on the body),” police said.
Ranks of the Divisional Headquarters at Anna Regina and crime scene technicians visited the scene.

The body, observed to be about 60 per cent decomposed, was photographed and taken to the Suddie Public Hospital, where it was officially pronounced dead by a doctor on duty.
The body is at the Suddie Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination. Investigators were told that the deceased man (no name given) had no fixed place of abode. Investigations are ongoing.