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Man drowns in Mandela Avenue Canal
Despite the warning of loved ones and friends to end an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, a 65-year-old resident of Lot 227 Lodge Housing Scheme has left his nine children in awful grief as they struggle to embrace a painful reality.
Victor Forde
At 11: 45 pm on Friday last, Victor Forde, in an intoxicated state, fell into a canal nearby the Church of the Transfiguration on Mandela Avenue. After being rescued, Forde fell into the canal again and drowned.
A relative who spoke with this publication yesterday said, “Victor is my husband’s uncle. He was self employed but he liked his alcohol. I was informed at around 11: 35 pm on Saturday that he was intoxicated at the time and had his bicycle at the time of his death. He was walking along the Avenue with his bicycle and a boy and a girl was behind him.”
The couple related that he fell into the canal and they tried to rescue him. “When he was taken out of the trench the first time, he was alive and then he fall in the trench again because he was drunk and not aware of himself. The second time he fall in he died. We will miss Uncle Victor. He was jovial, quiet and willing to work hard. He was always ready to render assistance. It is really sad for his children who are in the United States and it’s hard for them to embrace this situation.”
This newspaper understands that the couple was detained for questioning by the police but was subsequently released.
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