Wife upset that husband’s body was buried in interior

Jan 05, 2012 News

Yvette Harper of Blue Berry Hill squatting area is dissatisfied with the fact that her reputed husband,

Andrew Allicock

43- year-old Andrew Allicock, who was reportedly discovered dead in a camp at Mowasie, was buried there, even though his employers had promised to bring out his body to Linden for burial.
According to the woman, Allicock left Linden to work in the interior about three weeks ago. “He say he going and mek li’l money”. She never saw him again.
Instead she was called by some Brazilians and informed of his death last Monday.
Harper said that she is somewhat suspicious of her husband’s death as he was in good health when he left Linden.
He was reportedly left in the mining camp alone with a senior relative of his employers, while the other employees went home for the holidays.
The man was discovered dead in his hammock, after he failed to respond to calls from some Brazilians. They subsequently called his reputed wife.
Harper reported that when she received the call on Monday about her husband’s death and she was told that his body would be ‘brought out’ and the entire funeral package would have been borne by his employers.
However, she said yesterday that she was informed by the police that the body had to be buried in the interior.
“I wanted them to bring him out so he could get a decent funeral. Ow man, he is not an animal; he got family,” she cried tearfully.
Andrew Allicock was the sole breadwinner for his family.

Yvette Harper and her children

A distraught Harper said that she has no idea how she’ll take care of her four children, whose ages range from 18 years to six years old.
And the fact that her husband has already been buried in the interior fills her with even more trepidation, as she is now doubtful that his employers would now give her anything as they had promised.