Tain Farmer found dead along Corentyne Public road

Aug 14, 2018 News

Marlon Cox

A 38-year-old Farmer of Tain Village, Corentyne, Berbice was yesterday found dead, around 3:30 am, along the Kilmarnock Public Road with injuries about his body.
Dead is Marlon Cox of Market Street, Tain Village.
According to information received, the body was found on the northern carriageway of the Kilmarnock Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, with injuries to the right hand and head. The injuries, the police said, are consistent with that of a motor vehicle accident.
Wife of the deceased, Savitri Clarence, recounted that her husband returned from work on Sunday around midday and told her he was heading to a horse racing event.
”He go to work and he come back and then he sit down lil bit and then he ready and go races. After he gone, me deh home and deh wait and wait and me nah see he come, and then midnight reach and he still didn’t reach home. I drop asleep and when I get up yesterday morning, me wash out he clothes and so, and then me get a call just after 10 o’clock from me neighbour and she tell me she hear a accident happen at Maida side and Marlon get knock down,” Clarence stated.
The grieving woman explained that after making contact with the police she went to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital to identify her husband’s body.
Police sources told this publication that it appears as though “it was a hit and run”. No-one has since been arrested or a vehicle located. It is believed that the farmer was intoxicated at the time of his death, the police said. Cox was a father of five.
The body is presently at the New Amsterdam Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post mortem to determine the cause of death.

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