Handyman found floating in Liliendaal Canal

Sep 26, 2013 News

After being missing for two weeks, the body of Roy George surfaced yesterday in a canal at the Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara pump station.
The 44-year-old lived alone at North Sophia Squatting area. Bruises were found on his body while his right arm appeared to be broken when he was fished out of the canal.

This cabin in which Roy George lived before his demise.

The body was stuck at the grillwork that prevents debris from reaching the pump.
A pump attendant at the Liliendaal facility told this newspaper that he was alerted to the body by two young men who were passing through the area around 06:30 hours.
“These two men riding past and stop by de grill. I see dem pointing in de water. Then they call me and show me a man body floating,” the pump attendant said.
He explained that the body was so decomposed that the stench was unbearable.
“They had to spray he fuh move he,” he said.
George who was known as “Fisherman,” was also a handyman in the area. The father of three leaves to mourn four brothers and two sisters.
According to one of his sisters, Bibi Mohamed, her brother went missing almost two weeks ago. She related that he was supposed to assist her with some carpentry work but never turned up.
“I had a piece of fence for him to fix two Sundays ago; he said he would come Monday and I never saw him the following Monday. Then I tell my daughter that my brother didn’t come by me, like he sick,” she explained.
“Tuesday afternoon my daughter was calling he to give he some food but we didn’t see he, so we began to call relatives and the police station and no one said they see he.”
She added that on another occasion when he had gone missing, he was found locked up at Sparendaam Police Station. Mohamed said on this occasion, all other police stations were contacted but no information was forthcoming.
“We then visited another niece on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway but they didn’t know anything, and we search all over and we didn’t find he. We made a report at Prashad Nagar Police outpost.”
The woman said that she was on her way home after selling at the market yesterday, when a young man alerted her that George’s body was found floating in the canal.
She said after slumping against a fence she immediate got depressed and began to wonder how her brother met his demise.