Latest update January 20th, 2025 4:00 AM
Vandals desecrate Le Repentir tomb
Saying goodbye to him was difficult, but to see his tomb vandalized less than a week after he was laid to rest was devastating, according to family members of Noel Campo who passed away three Fridays ago.
A police detective (far right) keeps his distance as family members check to see if anything is missing from the vandalized tomb.
Campo, a 43-year-old father of one, was buried in a casket two Fridays ago at Le Repentir Cemetery. The discovery of the broken tomb was made by cemetery workers around 10:00hrs yesterday. Everything the gold miner was buried in was intact.
According to Campo’s wife, Ashmin Bacchus, she had just gotten home from the doctor with her one-year-old baby when she received a call that the tomb had been broken into.
“I give the cemetery workers my number because I want them to tile his tomb and one of them called me this morning and tell me that somebody break up the tomb,” Bacchus said.
The woman added that when she got there she saw the top of the tomb smashed up.
“I don’t know who did this, but before we bury him we heard that people does come and throw out the body from the casket and thief it, so we damage the casket so they won’t thief it,” the woman related.
Family members assumed that vandals broke the tomb in an effort to steal the casket but when they noticed that it was damaged, they went away without taking it.
“I don’t know who would want to do this. His relatives giving me a fight, they think he (Campo) left me with money but they don’t know what is going on. Before he died, we bought a house, and now I have to pay the bank for it,” a tearful Bacchus said.
She explained that she tried to do her best to send her husband off in as decent a manner as possible, but the very thing she was trying to avoid happened.
“I even paid the cemetery workers to build the tomb a little higher because they say when the rain fall, it does flood and I didn’t want water to cover him.”
Meanwhile, police were called in to examine the tomb and to check whether any part of the corpse was missing, since persons at the scene were speculating that his head might have been missing, but this was proven to be a rumour.
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