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Body on Kitty seawall identified
– family suspects suicide
The body of the man found on the Kitty foreshore has been positively identified by relatives.
Making the identification some time around midday yesterday was the dead man’s mother, Olive Boodhoo.
According to the grieving mother, 18-year-old Roy Bacchus, of Diamond New Housing Scheme, beyond the shadow of a doubt committed suicide. She said she last saw her son at about 13:00 hours on Tuesday.
“He left home saying that he going in town and walk. But de morning when he wake up he de sending he li’l brother fuh buy rat poison and I talk to he,” Boodhoo recalled.
According to the woman, her son told her that rat had bitten his shirt and he wanted the rat poison for the rats. She however did not buy his story. She now believes that her son may have taken his own life because of a relationship that went bad for him.
“He was living home with a girl in Kitty and he tell we that he went home a day and catch she with somebody else. He come back home.”
The woman recalled that ever since her son returned home he had been talking of taking his own life. She said that she talked him out of doing that on several occasions and even thought that he had got over the girl.
“He use to tell we that he love this girl really bad and that he can’t live without she but we use to tell he if she got somebody else left she alone…we really use to talk to he,” the woman added.
However, when he failed to return home on Tuesday evening she became worried, knowing that he wanted to end his life.
“After he didn’t come home I went by he aunty and ask if he sleep deh but she tell we no, that he aint sleep deh so right away she start calling around,” Boodhoo said. She added that her sister then called her son’s friend whom he would visit from time to time. That friend said that he did not sleep there.
“A while later she (Bacchus’s aunt) call and she tell me that she believe police find he on de seawall because dem see a picture in de Kaieteur News and de person de wearing de same clothes he left home with.”
Having been told this, the woman said she immediately went to the Lyken Funeral Home, where she was advised to check with the Kitty Police Station. After being escorted by a police rank, the woman said she was allowed to identify her son’s remains.
A post mortem is expected to be performed on Bacchus’s remains some time later today. At around 16:00 hours on Wednesday, her son’s body was discovered by persons who were jogging along the seawall.
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