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Aug 25, 2013 News
Almost one month after he hacked his two children to death and maimed his wife, the badly decomposed body of 26-year-old Richard Lord was discovered hanging from a tree on the Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo foreshore yesterday.
The discovery was made a little after 12:30hrs by a group of fishermen who were catching crabs in the area.
Given the advanced state of decomposition, it is believed that Lord hanged himself shortly after he killed his children.
Police in a press release said that around 12:30 hrs, the decomposed body of Richard Lord was found hanging among a clump of trees on the Zeelugt foreshore. The release further stated that Lord was wanted by the police for questioning in relation to the murder of Kimberley Houston and Tarif Lord.
On August 01, last, Lord went berserk and slaughtered his five-year-old daughter, Kimberley Houston and two-year-old son, Tarif Lord. His wife, 21-year-old Bibi Nazarena Houston’s right hand was severed and three fingers from her left hand were cut off by Lord.
Days after Lord committed the brutal murders, there was speculation that his body was seen hanging from a tree, but this was not confirmed until yesterday.
When Kaieteur News visited the scene, there were scores of curious onlookers all around, waiting to get a glimpse of the decomposed remains, which had people placing their hands over their nose to avoid the stench.
Lord’s body was found hanging from a tree by the neck, while his head was on the muddy dam below his feet. A pair of pants was still on the body.
According to an eyewitness, “Since Thursday we de smelling something stink everytime the breeze blow, but we didn’t pay it any mind because we dealing with fish and crab, so as a fishermen certain smell don’t hit yuh suh, but this thing smell like dead cow.”
He added that yesterday he noticed vultures circling in the air and became suspicious and began investigating.
He further said that when one of his co-workers went into the heavily forested area in the vicinity of the seawalls he discovered a decomposed body hanging from the branch of a tree about 30 feet off the ground.
“After he call all ah we, we look up and see the body but it de done decompose because it had all kind ah thing crawling pon it and with a set a fly”, the eyewitness said.
He added that after taking a closer look, he and others realized that the body was hanging without a head, so he immediately called the police.
“All me life I never see a body hang from the neck and the way he body smell you would know that it been up there a li’l while, is just that because of the heavy bush that deh bout here nobody wouldn’t recognize it,” the man noted.
Meanwhile, Lord’s wife who is being protected by the Ministry of Human Services was unaware of the discovery up to late yesterday afternoon but her mother, Bibi Khairool Houston expressed satisfaction when she received the news.
“I just finish eating lunch and a li’l girl come and ask me if I didn’t hear they found Richard Lord and I said no, and then she told me that they found him in the bushes by the seawall,” the woman stressed.
She added that she and one of her daughters hurried to the scene to confirm the news, “When we reach there, the police didn’t want me to go, but my daughter went and she said that his head fall off, his body shrink and it black, black.”
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect was found with the same pants he wore when he committed the murder.
“It look like the same time when he kill them, he run in the bushes and hang himself and if the police had searched good, they would have found him,” the older Houston said, while adding that she is somewhat happy.
“Today (yesterday) I found peace… All the time I was living in fear, because he told me that he will come back to burn my house down and every night I go to bed, I am wondering when he would come to do that,” Khairool Houston stressed.
When this newspaper contacted the dead man’s father, Albert Lord, he said that he was not surprised at how his son met his demise.
“I know that he would have committed suicide.”
The man went on to defend his son, stating that he was living a miserable life.
The body of Richard Lord is currently lying at the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour
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