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Missing miner’s body ‘disappears’ -belongings reportedly burnt
Shawn Clarke and his wife Rachael in happier times.
The wife and daughter of Shawn Clarke, a miner who went missing on July 10, last, are sure that a body that was reportedly spotted in Mahdia yesterday is his,
But they are being told that the corpse has since disappeared.
Clarke, 47, left his Lot ‘C’ Norton Street, Lodge home on June 15 for the North Fork area in Region 7, where he had been working as a gold miner for over 20 years.
Kaieteur News understands that Clarke’s body was later seen in the area. But before police could have arrived on the scene, someone allegedly moved the remains. It was reported that some of Clarke’s personal items were burnt. Maggots were reportedly seen at the spot from which the corpse had been shifted.
Clarke would normally communicate daily with his relatives in the City via phone. However, his wife, Rachael Clarke, suspected that something was wrong with her husband after he failed to answer several calls she placed to his cell phone on July 10.
The distraught wife recalled that she spoke to her husband at around 06:00hrs in relation to some items she had sent to the interior for him with a bus.
“Apparently that Sunday (July 10) night he was heading to the bus for the package. He called the bus man around quarter to nine (that’s the information I get from the bus man) and he tell the man that he coming out from North Fork to go to Mahdia. That’s the last time the bus man heard from him.”
She said that after she called her husband’s phone on July 12, and got no response, she called the same bus driver who said that her husband did not come to collect anything.
The woman related that she became worried and began enquiring from some of her husband’s friends in the interior about his whereabouts.
“I asking if anybody see he or if he stop at any other backdam. But everybody say they ain’t see he.”
According to Mrs. Clarke, two of his friends ventured into the area on Sunday and began investigating.
“When they take this thing serious was Sunday morning when they realize he missing.”
The information that the friends got is that my husband and a man named “Marlon” left North Fork and walked to another backdam.
“They (Marlon and her husband) were seen there and then they were heading to Mahdia. That was the last time somebody saw my husband alive.”
Clarke’s wife and his 22-year-old daughter Natalia McKenzie said that they are hoping that his body would be found to get closure.
McKenzie said that even though her father’s body has not been recovered, she has accepted that the body spotted is his. The young woman described her father as a very loving and easy going individual.
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