Man’s head found in plastic bag a few yards from body

Sep 23, 2014 News

Workers attached to the Ministry Public Workers yesterday afternoon made a shocking discovery while clearing out a cemetery at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara. Hidden in a clump of bushes was the badly decomposed body of a man.

The remains of the “skull” which was found a short distance from the body

The discovery was made shortly after 16:00hrs. That particular area where the body was found is very desolate.
A few yards away a human skull and a pair of blood stained shoe laces were found in a black plastic bag. There was also some “heavy duty” tape wrapped around the bag.
Several other bones which appeared to be human where scattered around the scene because dogs had begun to devour the remains. Police sources have also said that a plastic handcuff along with a car mat was found in the bushes close to the body.
Ministry worker, Mark Phillips, told Kaieteur News that they were sitting on a bridge when they saw a dog dragging a black bag. He said that the contents of the bag gave off a bad scent. Phillips said that upon closer examination they saw it was a “human head”. The sight of what was inside the bag shocked the men, he said.
They then got up and went to where they saw the dog pulling the bag and found the other part of the body. The police was informed and arrived quickly to the scene.
Detectives who were summoned to the scene took a statement from at least one worker attached to the Ministry. Kaieteur News was told that the police had tried to get Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh to the scene to do a post mortem but were unsuccessful in their attempts.