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Friendship man found floating in trench

Jul 01, 2018 News

Sixty-year-old Vernon Jackson aka “Beard man” of Church Street, Friendship, East Bank Demerara, was yesterday fished out of a trench, mere feet from where he lived.
Jackson’s body was discovered around 08:00 hrs by some friends who are known to come out early in the morning and have drinks on the corner. When passing and looking for Jackson they saw him in the trench floating on his back, the police were summoned and they in turn called the undertakers who removed the body from the trench and took it to the Lyken’s Funeral Home where it awaits a post mortem.
One resident said Jackson worked somewhere around the area doing odd jobs. When asked where he lived, the residents pointed to a small table-like structure that was not too far from where his body was pulled from the trench, and said that is where he used to stay.
The police issued a statement late last night saying, “investigation revealed that Vernon Jackson lives under a tree at Friendship EBD that has a trench to the south of it .The trench runs east to west and is about fifteen feet wide and about eight feet deep. Vernon Jackson was last seen alive on Friday around 12:00 hrs, when he visited his cousin Marilyn King who lives at Friendship EBD.
On Monday about 08:00 hrs Marilyn King received information that Vernon Jackson was found floating in the Friendship trench next to where he lives.”

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