Unidentified body found in Wales backdam, foul play suspected

Sep 03, 2013 News

The body of a decomposing male has been recovered from a dam adjacent to the cane fields in the West Bank Demerara area and police suspect that foul play may have been involved.

A worker from the Ezekiel Funeral Service heading to the backdam behind Wales, West Demerara, to retrieve the unidentified body.

According to residents of Long Pond, a community that is part of Wales, West Bank Demerara, on Sunday afternoon a sugar worker was making his rounds in the area west of Long Pond when he spotted the body of what appeared to be a male negro. The body was naked and was lying on a dam parallel to the one that is normally traversed by sugar workers.
He contacted his superiors at Wales Sugar Estate and a report was made to the Wales Police Station.
However , it was not until yesterday that the police was able to send in a team to the area. A boat belonging to Wales Estate, was used and workers of Ezekiel Funeral Services along with investigators made their way to the scene, which is located at least two miles from the actual village.
Kaieteur News understands that the body had what appeared to be “holes”, suspected to be gunshot wounds.
Up to late yesterday, no one had come forward to identify the remains which appeared to have been left in the area about five or six days prior to the discovery.