Security guard found face-down in trench

Jan 13, 2009 News

When 64-year-old Philbert Liverpool did not show up for work on Sunday night, his employers believed that he was not feeling well and maybe had called it a day.

Dead: Philbert Liverpool

What they did not know was that the security guard did leave his Ogle, East Coast Demerara home at about 20:00 to go to work. Even his wife and other family members thought that he was at work.
It was only after one of his colleagues went to his home to enquire about his well-being that a shocking revelation was made.
Liverpool’s body was discovered face-down in a drain next to a bridge that he normally uses to access his home. In fact, several persons had passed the area, but none of them had noticed the body.
Liverpool never reached his work place.
From all indications, Liverpool was on his way to work when he apparently fell off the bridge and drowned in the shallow trench.
His distraught wife, Shirley, told this newspaper that after her husband failed to show up for work as usual, staffers from the security service where he was employed enquired about his whereabouts.
She said she told them that he had left the home and was on his way.
But yesterday morning one of his colleagues went to his house, and the dead man’s wife informed that he had not returned home.
A few minutes later, a resident raised the alarm that Liverpool’s body was lying in the drain at the end of a passageway that he normally used to go home.
Relatives rushed to the scene, only to have their worst fears confirmed.
The elderly man still had on his long boots and was still clutching his umbrella and lunch bag.
Police had examined the body and had found no marks of violence, but they will rely on a post mortem examination to determine the cause of his death.