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Oct 02, 2013 News
– Relatives wish for autopsy granted
Relatives of a 33-year-old handyman who was buried by police on Monday last have sought to have his body exhumed so that an autopsy could be performed. They are also concerned with the actions of the police, in “taking the body and burying it somewhere” in Bush Lot, Berbice.
The body of Orin Anastace, originally from the North West District, was discovered floating in the Abary Creek, Berbice, early Sunday, by one of his friends.
The friend, who is also a handyman on a ranch just a stone’s throw away from the farm where the dead man was employed, is in police custody along with two other ranch workers.
However, relatives of the dead man as well as associates of the men in custody have expressed concern as to why the three men were arrested without a post mortem examination being conducted.
According to information received, the three men were the last persons to see Anastace alive on Saturday last, the day before his body was found floating in the creek with a suspected knife-wound to the neck.
A source told Kaieteur News that when the discovery was made, Anastace’s employer went to the police station to make a report but failed to get assistance.
“When the boss went to the police station to make a report, the police told him they were having a ‘sport’ and that he (boss) should pull in the body in a corner and leave it until Monday,” the source stressed.
This publication was informed that the ranch owner then instructed his workers to “pull in the body and place it between two boats so that it wouldn’t float away.”
Yesterday, Abiola Ross, one of the dead man’s relatives, said that she was at home when Anastace’s employer called and informed her of his demise.
“He called and asked me to go there (Abary) the following day to identify the body. When I went I notice that there was a mark on his neck with blood around it and when I asked, his friends (the ones in custody) told me that it was fish bites, but that is not true,” the woman stressed.
She explained that the persons in custody told her that Anastace was consuming alcohol with them on Saturday night.
“The men told me that they were all drinking late Saturday and then they drop him over to his camp in a boat after the drinking session. Something is not adding up. They drop him at his camp and early the next morning his body was floating,” Ross stressed.
Kaieteur News was informed by a police source that the body will be exhumed today.
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