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Nov 13, 2014 News
Two years after returning to Guyana to take control of the vast wealth that his dead father left, 43-year old
Canadian Jonathon Validen died in a motorcycle accident early yesterday morning.
Police say that Validen who lived in one of his late father’s mansions at Pigeon Island, East Coast Demerara, crashed his racing type motorcycle on the Montrose Public Road at around 04:30 hours while heading home from the city.
According to the police, Validen was allegedly riding his motorcycle at a fast rate when he lost control and fell.
He received injuries and was lying on the road for several minutes until he was picked up and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A source who lives near the scene of the accident told this newspaper that Validen was trying to negotiate a bend in the road at Montrose when he crashed.
A security guard on duty in the vicinity then contacted the police at the nearby Sparendaam Police Station, who responded and found Validen lying motionless on the road with his badly damaged motorcycle a few yards away.
“He was probably drunk and it look like he get speed wobble while coming around de turn,” the source said.
He said that Validen appeared to be already dead when the police picked him up from the road.
Validen arrived in Guyana in October 2012, a month after his father, the reclusive 76-year-old Obstetrician/Gynaecologist was found dead in his Agriculture Road, Mon Repos mansion; an apparent suicide victim.
The young Validen had arrived just in time to halt the pillaging of his father’s vast assets by fortune seekers, who were seeking to cash in on the absence of close relatives.
His father’s body had been lying at the Lyken Funeral Parlour awaiting a next of kin, even as fortune seekers, some from as far as the United States, concocted schemes to get a piece or all of his estate.
The now dead Jonathan Validen had been living in Canada for most of his life and the last time he had been in Guyana was in the early 1990s.
He had very little contact with his father since then and had no knowledge of the great wealth his father had acquired during that period.
When he returned after his father’s death, he saw why those fortune seekers were trying everything possible to get their hands on what the dead doctor left behind.
He found out that one Denise Gainetta, an American woman who claimed to be the doctor’s daughter, had turned up to claim his father’s body for burial. However Dr. Validen’s only daughter had died the previous year. The woman disappeared after this newspaper exposed the intended scheme.
Jonathan Validen leaves to mourn a Guyanese wife and a child, along with two other children whose mother reportedly resides in Barbados.
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