Slain man with plastic bag over head ID’d as construction worker who had lived in Venezuela

The mystery surrounding the identity of the dead man who was found last week at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara with his head tied in a plastic bag has finally been solved.

Sunday, detectives accompanied a Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara family to the Ezekiel Funeral Home, where family members identified the victim as Andy Williams, a Guyanese who had returned from Venezuela four months ago. A postmortem, likely to be conducted today, will ascertain how the 45-year-old construction worker met his end. But Divisional Commander of Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Coast Demerara) Simon McBean said that police are still to ascertain whether this is a case of foul play. “We are going where the evidence takes us. So far, we have established when he left home and when he was last seen alive.” A niece of the dead man told Kaieteur News that her uncle had migrated to Venezuela 26 years ago. He was living in Puerto Diaz, Venezuela, with his wife and four daughters.

But with Venezuela hit hard by economic and political upheaval, her uncle, unable to find work, returned to Guyana on February 23, last. He resided at a sister’s home at Zeeburg, West Coast Demerara, and would travel daily to the East Coast of Demerara to work with a cousin in the construction industry. She recalled that her uncle recently indicated that he would live on the construction site, rather than travel daily from the West Coast of Demerara.

(Kaieteur News)