Plaisance man found dead in trench after beating

Apr 28, 2010 News

Police at Sparendaam on the East Coast of Demerara are anxiously awaiting the results of a post mortem examination on the body of Carl Williams, which was pulled from a trench aback of Vryheid’s Lust yesterday morning.
While investigators initially found no marks of violence on Williams’ body, there is suspicion over his demise as residents in his community reported that he was badly beaten by some neighbours shortly before he disappeared on Monday morning.
Williams, of Graham Street, Plaisance, and who is said to be mentally challenged, was found floating in the canal aback of Vryheid’s Lust by workers attached to the Guyana Sugar Corporation.
Curtis Williams, the dead man’s brother, told this newspaper that his brother began acting strangely recently and he and other family members were contemplating taking him for a psychiatric evaluation.
He said that he had taken his brother to his sister’s house to prepare him for a visit to the hospital.
However, the mentally ill man managed to escape into the backlands of Plaisance.
A search was mounted but Williams was not found.
But neighbours recalled seeing Williams early yesterday morning, while he was being beaten by persons in the community.
One neighbour, Anthony Holder, recalled hearing a commotion in the yard next to him at around 05:30 hours on Monday.
“I heard a sound like somebody beating somebody. When I open my back door I saw Wiilliams and two other guys living in the yard.
They claimed like he come to steal something. They were beating him. Terrible licks I tell you. If you hear Bai! Bai! Bai! So I say these people know this boy is not a thief, why they beating he like this?” Holder told this newspaper.
He said that when the persons beating Williams saw him they discontinued their activity.
Holder said that Williams subsequently limped out of the yard and he did not see him again.
Another neighbour, Lorna Mayers, also witnessed the beating.
“I hear the lashes so I jump out me bed. I see dem beating the boy in the yard and I asked them is who. I say before y’all beat he so, y’all could carry he to the station. But is more lashes dey put in he.
They beat he up bad. I never hear lashes so yet,” Mayers said.
The next time she heard about Williams, he was dead.
Williams was described as a labourer who did odd jobs for residents of his neighbourhood.
Investigators at the Sparendaam Police Station who were subsequently informed about the beating Williams received before his death said that they would be monitoring the situation closely to see if the beating had anything to do with his death.

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