Cops detain two in search for missing miner

Jul 21, 2016 News

Two people were in custody yesterday as police in ‘F’ Division intensified their search for Shawn Clarke, the 47-year-old miner who disappeared on July 10, last.

Shawn Clarke and his
wife Rachael in happy times.

One of the detained men is said to be the individual ‘Marlon’, who was allegedly last seen with Clarke at North Fork, Mahdia.
Police have received reports that a body that might be Clarke’s was spotted at Mahdia on Tuesday, but searches by detectives revealed no trace of the ‘corpse’ or any of his belongings.
Clarke left his Lot ‘C’ Norton Street, Lodge home on June 15 for North Fork, Mahdia in Region Seven, where he had been working as a gold miner for over 20 years.
His wife and daughter have received reports that Clarke’s body was later seen in the area, but someone moved the remains. They were also told that some of Clarke’s belongings were burnt and that maggots were seen at the spot from which the corpse had been shifted.
Clarke would normally communicate daily with his relatives in Georgetown via phone. However, his wife, Rachael Clarke, suspected that something was wrong after he failed to answer several calls 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 began enquiring from some of her husband’s friends in the interior about his whereabouts.
The information that the friends got is that my husband and a man named “Marlon” left North Fork and walked to another back dam.
“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.”

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