St. Cuthbert’s Mission teen found wandering .. Funeral parlour had reported him dead

Jun 28, 2016 News

Days after he was presumed dead, St Cuthbert‘s Mission teenager, Travaun Kattow, has been found. The teen was wandering at the Soesdyke/ Linden Junction, on Friday.
According to his Grandmother, Joyce Andrews, a driver of a private hire car found him wandering at the head of the Soesdyke /Linden Highway and contacted his uncle.

Travaun Kattow

“We are just grateful that he is alive and back to his sense,” Andrews said. She said that her grandson is “now safe at home with his family where he belongs”
However, the elderly woman noted that the family never got an explanation from the funeral parlour about the claims that her grandson was dead.
“They just claim that it was a mistake, but I still can’t understand how someone could mix up the living with the dead.”
Kattow, 18, of St. Cuthbert ‘s Mission, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, was feared dead after he reportedly vanished on Thursday, June 16, from the Psychiatric Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, (GPHC).
A worker attached to a funeral parlour had contacted the family with the news of his death prompting them to travel to Georgetown in search of his body. But it turned out that the information was false.
Andrews explained that her grandson has a history of mental illness; he “troubled with his nerves” for a number of years.
She noted that it was after much consideration that the family took the initiative to take the teen to Georgetown for treatment since the situation got “out of hand.”
In an earlier interview with this publication, the boy‘s father, Hesley Kattow, explained that his son was institutionalised at GPHC for four days before he received bad news.
“The person called and said he name Alleyne and that my son dead and that he body at Sandy’s Funeral Parlour.”
After receiving the message, Mr. Kattow and several of his other relatives travelled to Georgetown to find out what happened to his son.
Upon his arrival at GPHC, the man said that he was informed that his son escaped from the Psychiatric Ward.
“The hospital staff tell we that he run away. He fight with the orderly and get away…We check the mortuary and so before we went to the funeral parlour.”
Mr. Kattow said that before leaving the hospital, the contact information of his son‘s next of kin was documented on the form and handed to attendees. He therefore found it strange that a parlour and not the hospital, contacted him to tell him about his teenager.
At the parlour, however, Kattow said that his son’s body could not be located.
(Rehanna Ramsay)

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