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Relatives question ‘accidental’ death of BK worker
Relatives of Lemuel Lynch, the 23-year-old man whose lifeless body was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation last evening following a freak accident, are seeking information on his death.
Lynch, a former employee of BK International from Lot 146 Back Street Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, reportedly drowned in a pond near the Haags Bosch dumpsite, Eccles East Bank Demerara around 14:00 hours, on Friday afternoon.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). However according to initial reports, Lynch’s body was transported to GPHC by his workmates, who left before police investigators could conduct interviews to ascertain how he died.
Lemuel Lynch
As investigations continue, suspicions into Lynch’s death have heightened.
His aggrieved mother, Aretha Lynch, says that she is left to wonder what caused the sudden death of her only son.
She explained that her son left home around 6:30 hours on Friday in the best of health but never returned.
“I want to know because no one told us anything tangible or substantial to (make us) understand what might have happened to my son,” the woman told Kaieteur news yesterday.
Lynch’s cousin, Marcia Bakker, said that news of his death came as a shock to the entire family.
“Someone called the house around 4 pm on Friday asked for Lemuel’s mother to come down to the Dumpsite at Eccles. The caller said that something serious had happened to him.
“She sent his father. Another call subsequently came. This time the person said the body is at the mortuary. That’s when his mother realized that he was dead. Nobody has said anything practical to us since.”
Bakker explained that Lynch’s family and friends are left to figure out the details of his death.
We have received a number of conflicting information. That’s only after we probed to get information; one person told us that Lemuel was warned not to go into the pond, which he and another worker were standing near.
“Workers told us that my cousin apparently drown because they had fished his body from the bottom of the pond. My cousin can’t swim; he won’t go into the water like that.”
Bakker said that she was also told that a co-worker who walks with the aid of crutch also helped in the search.
“Something ain’t adding up, we have received no word from officials of BK International; we can’t understand that. It would be decent if they would have at least contact the family and said something to us,” Bakker added.
According to Bakker, while details remain sketchy, police have questioned several persons, who were at the scene of the incident. No-one has been detained.
Lynch leaves to mourn his parents, his grandmother and three younger sisters.
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