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Decomposed body of missing Sophia man surfaces in trench
Police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of 23-year-old Akeem Culley, whose decomposed corpse was discovered in the trench that separates North Sophia from Liliendaal,
Undertakers removing the body of Akeem Culley yesterday from the canal which separates North Sophia from Liliendaal.
Greater Georgetown yesterday.
Culley, a father of two from the North Sophia area, was dragged from his home by a group of masked individuals on December 30. His body was found a short distance away from his residence, nearly three weeks after his reputed wife, Candacy Duncan, reported the abduction.
Duncan said that the body was spotted at around 9:00 am, a few minutes after residents detected a foul smell emanating from the main canal aback of North Sophia. But she said that that was not the first time the neighbours had asked her to check in the vicinity because of the foul smell.
She said that the first time she checked she found nothing. It was the same night when the men abducted him.
Duncan recounted that the last time she saw Culley alive was on December 30, 2015. She said that night her reputed husband was home, when four masked men forced their way in and having identified him, led him out of the house. The 30-year-old mother of five told reporters that one of the men was armed with a gun. She recalled that the men stabbed and dragged Culley out of the house.
“The Tuesday night, at about one ‘o clock, I hear a knocking at the door. De person say is Akeem. I got something fuh tell yuh…Well I thought was me neighbour, he name Akeem too, so I open de door and a man point a gun in me face.
“Same time me boy come out de room and dem say look he deh. One hug him and de other hold on pun him. One of dem stab him; I hear him grunt when he get stab,” Duncan explained. She then heard two gunshots. She said that by the time she rushed outside to follow her husband, she saw no one.
Although she could not say what the real cause of the incident is, Duncan suspects that Culley’s disappearance had something to do with a motorcycle he was accused of stealing.
According to her, a group of men had accused her partner of stealing a motorcycle. She said that the men had been searching for him and had even subjected her brother to sound beating over the motorbike.
Duncan claimed that the matter was reported to the police and had been under investigation when Culley went missing.
“I ended up filing a missing person report and we de looking for he ever since.”
The couple had shared a five-month relationship prior to the incident.
At the crime scene yesterday, residents gathered to get a glimpse of the decomposed remains which surfaced in the weed-choked canal.
In tears, Duncan said that she identified her boyfriend’s body by his clothes, which he had been wearing the night he disappeared, “a red and white American Eagle boxers”
Culley is said to have been shot and stabbed to death.
Meanwhile, the victim’s mother Donna Culley related that she had last seen her son sometime in August. She said that he spoke to her about going into the interior to work, so she gave him kitchen utensils and a hammock.
“I give him a hammock and a bucket to go in the bush,” she said, noting that this was her son’s regular means of employment. The woman recalled that in December she made contact with her son and he told her that he was going at his girlfriend “Candacy,” who lives somewhere in Pike Street, Kitty.
The woman said that she had not seen or heard from her son since.
At the scene yesterday, the mother was consoled by relatives. She said that her son leaves to mourn his two children, aged three and two-months. A post mortem examination is scheduled to take place today.
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