Man’s body fished out of Eccles trench

Mar 23, 2011 News

Early yesterday morning, the corpse of Herbert Howard was discovered in a trench at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, by passers-by.
According to a police source, the body was fished out of the trench (in the Industrial site road between Eccles and Bagotstown) at 08:45 hrs, and bore no visible injuries. It had already begun to decompose.
Howard’s niece, Michelle, told this newspaper that she had last seen her uncle on Friday, when he told her that he needed to take care of his “book”, referring to his pension book.
She stated that he was neither married nor had any children, and would usually “lie down and sleep anywhere”, explaining that he would shift from relative to relative in Bagotstown.
Due to the fact that he lived a nomadic life, the woman said she did not worry about her uncle’s disappearance for the past few days, thinking that he was either by her sister or another relative.
“All of us live in the back street, Water Street, Bagotstown, just a few houses apart from each other, so all of us thought he was by the other.”
The woman added that she was telephoned to “come down at the site and identify the man” which she did. She said that she was shocked to learn of her uncle’s demise and more so at seeing his body in a decomposed state.
When asked if she noticed any marks of violence, she stated that “the back of his head look like it burst or maybe it is from him lying in the water so long. The police said we will know tomorrow, but when they raise him I think I see marks of violence.”
Howard’s niece also explained that none of the family recalls having any photographs of the aged man and they did not keep track of his age.
“I know he is over 65 years though, because he collecting pension.”

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