Miner fails to wake up after drinking spree

Jul 31, 2014 News

– relatives suspect foul play
The relatives of a 52 -year-old miner whose body was found on Saturday morning, are convinced that they are not being told the truth about how he met his death.
Anthony Adrian, called ‘Wakara’, who hailed from Moraikobe, Mahaicony Creek was discovered dead at a mining district located a few miles from Mahdia.
Although his body bore what appeared to be marks of violence, relatives were told that he collapsed and died after a drinking spree the previous night.
The dead man’s relatives are awaiting the result of a post mortem examination, which they are almost certain will confirm their fears that Adrian was murdered.
Amelia Adrian, who returned to the city yesterday with her father’s body, told Kaieteur News that she last saw her father alive, one year ago.
She said that last Saturday she was contacted by her brother who told her that he had received word from his father’s employer that Adrian was dead.
“He (boss man) tell me brother that we father drink and sleep and ain’t wake up de next morning. I then call the boss man and he tell me a different story,” Amelia Adrian said.
According to the dead man’s daughter, his employer told her that her father and another worker had left the camp after working on Friday evening to go to a shop to purchase some much needed items.
But only the other worker returned to camp the following morning.
The other employee reported to his colleagues that when he woke up on Saturday morning, he found Adrian lying dead in a room near the shop.
The worker said that he informed the shop owner and then left the scene.
“The boss man call me back later Saturday and tell me that my father was sleeping in a tent then he change and said that he was sleeping in a generator room,” the woman told this newspaper.
Even if she was not suspicious before, the different versions of how her father died caused her to be very distrustful of his employer.
“The shop owner said that he heard when someone got up to get some water and the person was panting for breath but he did not look out to see who it was,” Amelia Adrian said.
Her suspicions were further heightened when she spoke to the police at Mahdia.
Ms Adrian said that the police told her that her father had been drinking for three days and could not wake up on the last day.
This she found very strange since her father had only left his camp the evening before his death, “so I don’t know how they could tell me that he was drinking at the shop for three days.”
“I asked them if the body bore any marks and the police told me no. I asked them if the body was smelling and they told me no, that it okay and it was in a freezer. I even asked them when it coming to town and they tell me by Monday or Tuesday.”
The dead man’s daughter said that when she did not hear from the police on Monday, she contacted them and they gave her another date when her father’s body would be brought to the city.
She then took it upon herself to travel to Mahdia on Tuesday morning in the company of her cousin.
Upon arrival in Mahdia, she went to the police who escorted her to the mortuary to get a look at her father’s body.
She observed that his foot was okay, but the upper body was black as if somebody had beaten him.
“The same police tellin me, ‘girl, nobody ain’t do you father nothing, dat is just how we find he dead.’ I just walk out,” Ms Adrian told this newspaper, adding that she sensed that the policeman is covering up something, especially when he told her that her father’s employer did not have money to give her.
“I did not even mention anything about money. So why did he tell me that?” she asked.
The dead man’s daughter also believes that had she not travelled to Mahdia, her father’s body would have been left there to decompose, which would have hidden any possible sign of foul play.
“If I didn’t travel to Mahdia, my father’s body would not come out because they have another body in there for two months. They brought it out and carry it back because nobody ain’t identify it. And besides they got the mortuary like a dog pen.”
She said that it was only when her father’s body reached the Lyken Funereal Parlour that she actually got a good look at it, and what she saw convinced her that there was some foul play.

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