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Sugar worker’s body pulled from drain after drinking spree
Police are awaiting the results of a post mortem examination to determine the cause of death of 33 year old Zaheed Abdool called ‘Jack’, 42 of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, whose body was found in a drain in the village around 07:30 hours yesterday.
While relatives and neighbours are convinced that excessive rum drinking caused Abdool’s death, investigators are expected to conclude their probe after the determination by the Pathologist.
The sugar worker’s body was discovered by a little boy. He saw the victim lying in a drain at the back of the village. Abdool was still atop his bicycle and he appeared to have drowned.
He was last seen alive later Saturday evening by his father with whom he was imbibing in alcohol earlier in the day.
According to reports, Abdool, who fathered three children, including a two month old, was at his father’s home drinking and had left to go home on his bicycle.
His wife Savitrie Abdool said that around midday Saturday, her husband had just finished fetching in some sand and took a “little drink” before setting off for his father’s house further into the village.
“He say next ten minutes he gone come back. De whole night he nah come home.” Abdool’s wife explained that at first she did not worry too much since she suspected that her husband might have been heavily under the influence of alcohol and was sleeping over at his father’s, as he sometimes did.
But when she contacted his father and was told that he had left for home, panic set in.
She contacted her relatives, then the police station and the hospital but there was no trace of her husband.
Early yesterday morning she received the tragic news.
The dead man’s wife Savitrie and his three children grieve at the scene where his body was discovered.
“Somebody call me and tell me that dey find he in de drain and dis wha me come and see,” she cried.
Meanwhile, relatives of the dead man including his mother lamented the heavy ‘drinking’ that they believe caused his death.
“You see wha rum does do,” Abdool’s mother told his little brother as they stared at the lifeless body which was eventually pulled from the drain and taken away by employees of the Lyken Funeral Parlour.
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