Decomposing body found in Beetham

Police are trying to identify the decomposing body of a man that was found floating in a river near the Beetham water treatment plant on June 12.

Sources told Newsday police responded to reports that at first said a man had been beheaded and his body dumped in the Beetham Gardens.

Officers made their way to Clear Water Road on the southern side of the Beetham Gardens, near the NP building, and searched the area with the help of the Hunters Search and Rescue Team, led by Vallance Rambharath.

Police found the body at about 4.10 pm. When they fished the man’s body out of the water they discovered he had not been beheaded.

He was said to have been wearing green pants.

The body wasn’t identified up to press time.

A district medical officer pronounced the man dead and the body was removed to the Forensic Science Centre in St James, where an autopsy is expected to be done, pending identification.