Latest update May 8th, 2024 12:59 AM
Jan 12, 2011 News
Five days of worry and waiting came to a sad end yesterday for family members of Hilton Richardson.
The body of the 65-year-old man was found floating in the Lamaha Canal behind North Ruimveldt at 10:30hrs.
Ademi Hinds, of North Ruimveldt, told this newspaper that he was taking his customary swim in the ‘Blacka’ when he looked up stream and saw what he first thought was a pair of jeans ‘floating’ in the water. He said that he figured it couldn’t just be pants floating because ‘de jeans swell up too fat’ so he left the water and proceeded upstream along the bank of the canal on foot.
Eventually, he came to the spot where he had spotted the blue pants and saw that it was in fact a corpse which was floating face down in the water. The young man contacted the police and reported his find.
The barefoot body was clad in blue pants and a grey shirt and was also wearing a green haversack; items which were similar to those that Richardson had been reported as wearing when he was last seen by family members.
Richardson’s daughters were informed of the find and were given a description of the clothing on the body. They reported to the Lyken Funeral Home but were eventually directed to the abandoned Le Repentir mortuary to identify the partially decomposed body. After waiting several hours for the police to arrive, one of Richardson’s daughters eventually made a positive identification of his body.
The man, who was a father of eight and a grandfather of 17, lived at 156 Non Pareil Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. According to his daughter, Nicola Richardson, her father left for work on Thursday last and had not been seen since. At the time that he left home he had been wearing a grey shirt, blue pants, a brown pair of shoes, a red Digicel cap and carrying a green bag.
Richardson, who is said to be a security guard, was apparently posted at the Ketley Primary School in Charlestown, but although he left for work on Thursday he never reported to the site. His daughter contacted his boss, friends and as many of his acquaintances as she could, but none could shed any light on the missing man’s whereabouts.
She also said that her father was a heavy drinker and an epileptic as well. There had been occasions when he would go out, have too much to drink, and not come home the same night, but he would always show up by the next day.
Nicola Richardson couldn’t understand her father’s disappearance, least of all with his work clothes on. She said that if he was not feeling particularly well or he did not have to work on a given night then he would simply come home and go back out to drink. She recalls that during the last day that she saw him alive her father just kept looking at her and smiling, “as if he know something.”
The woman said that on Friday, when she noticed that it was “late afternoon” and her father had not yet returned home, she began to worry. She told Kaieteur News that she reported him being missing to the Ruimveldt Police Station but at the time this newspaper published its article the family had still heard nothing from the police. That was until yesterday when they (Police) went to visit the family.
Because of its partially decomposed state the body was taken to the abandoned Le Repentir Mortuary where the family went to identify it yesterday afternoon.
The family is hoping that they will be able to bury their relative as soon as possible but they will have to await an autopsy before they can proceed with the necessary arrangements.
GRA catch EXXON trying to hunch GUYANA over 11 BUS dollars in one shot!!!!
May 08, 2024
GFF- Blue Water Shipping Under-15 Girls’ National Secondary School Championship 21 matches played in regions 1, 4 and 10 Kaieteur Sports – Student athletes from Regions One (Barima-Waini),...Kaieteur News – Bharrat Jagdeo is naïve into believing that the Cold war has ended. His inability to recognise the... more
By Sir Ronald Sanders Waterfalls Magazine – On April 10, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States... more
Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.
Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: [email protected] / [email protected]