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Highway creek tragedy … PME shows drowning
Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh has found that 14-year-old Kevin Poulis died from drowning.
Poulis, a student of South Ruimveldt Secondary School, disappeared on Sunday after a trip to the Aziza Akousa Resort, opposite the Splashmin’s Fun Park, with his family and neighbours.
The teenager’s lifeless body was found on Tuesday morning some 50 metres away from where he was last seen on Sunday.
The examination was done yesterday morning at the Georgetown Public Hospital Mortuary. A few relatives who were present yesterday were still skeptical even after the post mortem was done.
Kevin Poulis minutes before his disappearance on Sunday
According to a relative they still have the suspicion that Poulis was a victim of foul play. The teen’s mother said that she found it very strange that her son’s body was found “upright” in shallow water.
More eyebrows were raised when relatives who were searching for the teen on Sunday saw where the body was found.
According to reports the teen’s body was found on the opposite side to where Poulis and his friends were seen swimming.
“I can’t understand how his body reach way over there….It’s not like the water current carried it because there is a fence separating the creeks…not even a bottle could pass through” one relative told Kaieteur News.
Further this newspaper was told by the teen’s mother that even if her son had drowned in the creek, with the number of people in the water, someone would have felt his body beneath the surface.
“So they saying he drown…Even if that’s so, that creek is always packed on a Sunday, especially on holidays. The number of people in the water there, I’m sure somebody would have stepped on the body,” she opined.
Veronica Edwards, the neighbour with whom the teen went to the creek, had told this newspaper that they left Georgetown some time after noon to head up to the creek on Sunday.
Edwards said that after arriving at the creek, the boys including Poulis, her son Leyland, and another teen quickly changed and went into the water.
“They changed off and went playing in the water….and the adults were sitting in the bus,” the woman explained.
According to Edwards, about 20 minutes later the boys went into the water, Poulis came back to her and asked her to safeguard his pair of sneakers.
“He come to the bus and ask me to look at his sneakers…because it expensive. I turn and tell he okay. I looking at it…and I ask he if he hungry and he say no,” Edwards told Kaieteur News.
Edwards could not say if the teen went back into the water, but that was the last time she saw him.
She further told Kaieteur News that she only became aware that something was amiss when her son and the other teen came and Poulis was missing. “Me son and de other boy come to the bus so I said I taking out y’all food. Where is Kevin?” Edwards stated.
The woman said she immediately started questioning her son about Poulis’s whereabouts and sent him to locate the lad. Her son and another teenager went in search of the missing boy but could not find him.
Meanwhile this newspaper was told that the two detained persons were released on station bail, pending the determination of the investigation.
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