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Apr 14, 2012 News
…but relatives still suspect foul play
A postmortem on the remains of 35-year-old Clive Daly has left family members more baffled as to how
the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission ranger actually met his end.
Daly’s decomposing body was pulled from a pit latrine at Buck Hall, Essequibo last Tuesday, and police disclosed that yesterday’s postmortem revealed that he died from drowning.
But a brother of the dead man is convinced that Daly was the victim of foul play.
“It is not possible that he could have got in there and drowned on his own free will,” Trevor Daly said.
According to the brother, who visited the area where the body was found, the entrance to the pit was three and a half-feet by three-and a half-feet. He added that the pit was five feet deep, with about three feet of water and garbage.
“It is an abandoned latrine pit that was used as a garbage dump. There are still lingering questions as to how he got in there.”
Clive Daly, of Lot 754 ‘B’ Field Sophia, was found on Tuesday afternoon tucked inside the pit. Initial reports had suggested that the body bore a head injury, but a friend who saw the corpse refuted this.
According to the friend, police investigators said that the body was two swollen for any visible marks to be detected.
The friend, who was among those with Daly, said that prior to travelling to the interior, the GGMC ranger had said that he had a toothache. According to the friend, he had advised Daly not to travel until he extracted the tooth.
Cameeza Daly, the dead man’s wife said that her husband left for the interior on March 29.
The mother of three said that she last spoke to her husband around 18:00 hrs on the day he left. She said he told her that they had reached Buck Hall and would be spending the night before heading to a place called Sulphur Rose the following day.
Mrs. Daly said that her husband sounded tense at the time he called, “as if something was bothering him, so I ask if everything was okay and he answered yes.”
Daly was at the time in the company of another worker and his boss.
Kaieteur News understands that the boss left Daly and the other worker alone and went to purchase parts for a four-wheel motorbike. When he returned and asked for Daly, the worker had reportedly said that Daly was in the toilet.
Days passed, the woman said and the family did not know Daly was missing. It was not until the elder brother who works at the airport received word about the man’s absence that checks were made. A search party eventually found the body.
At the time of the discovery, Daly said that the victim was found in three feet of water with garbage covering his head. She said that it appeared as if someone had used the sitting board of the latrine to hit her husband on the head so that he could fit into the hole.
Mrs. Daly further said that her brother-in-law learnt that Clive was playing pools with a man whom family members said they were able to identify since he had visited their home before. She said that he was believed to have been the last person to see her husband alive.
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