Body of missing carpenter found floating in Berbice River

– family suspects foul play

The body of Neville Narine, of Blairmont, Number Four, Berbice, who went missing on Monday was on Friday found floating in the Berbice River in the vicinity of the Rosignol Market.
According to his sister, Yvonne Narine, her 53-year-old brother had been missing since Monday after he had left to go to the Police Station to make a report against his son.

She said that the father of three had been constantly enduring physical abuse from his son and made the decision to make a Police report.
“He left his home in Blairmont to go to the Police Station, the Police said he was there and he left to go out to get a car to go home back, because that is the only way you can go out, which is by taxi, and he was never to be seen or heard from since,” she said.
“People also told us that they saw him not far from the Police Station.”
The woman related that her brother was living with his wife and son, and despite him being abused, he made the decision to stay with his family.
“I never used to get involved, because when they beat him, he would go right back there to them,” she explained.
She further stated that after her only brother went missing, a search was carried out, but he was not found.
“We were told that he was sitting at the Rosignol Stelling, but when we went to the area, he was nowhere to be found. I asked the fishermen if they saw anybody around sitting, but I did not think about death, because I thought he was just frustrated and was sitting somewhere… a guard man that works with the fishery said that they saw a body floating in the river.”
Upon receiving the news, family members informed the Police and rushed to the scene where they took a boat and started to look for the floating body.
Eventually, the carpenter’s body was pulled from the river. He was reportedly clad in the same clothes that he was wearing at the time of his disappearance. His sister believes that her brother was brutally murdered.
“He was not decomposed, but all over him was broken up, they tried to burn his face…after looking at the body, everybody said someone had murdered him… his foot was broken, his neck, he was badly beaten.”
“Whoever did it, they tried to disguise his face, because they burned his face,” she explained.
She said once it was confirmed that her brother was indeed murdered, she hoped that the perpetrator/s face the brunt of the law.