Family members fume as DNA test incomplete after 8 months

Body found in interior

…body still at mortuary

Eight months after his suspected partially decomposed body was found in a mining camp in Kuribrong, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), family members of Patrick Vyfhuis are still in suspense as they wait on a Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test to be conducted to know if the remains are that of the missing man.
Vyfhuis went missing on July 15, 2018, in the interior while he was being escorted out after he reportedly began behaving strangely. A partially decomposed body was found 10 days after which has left family members puzzled.
Fast forward to April and relatives of the suspected dead man are bashing the police for their slothful investigations as they are yet to determine whether the remains belong to the missing man.
Odessia Spencer, the dead man’s sister, told Guyana Times that she has almost become hopeless and has no idea why the test has not yet been conducted.
She said the police recently told the family that they have to wait but never explained why. According to her, they were only told that the man’s body was at a mortuary in Georgetown and is yet to be buried.
In the meantime, Commander of F Division (Interior locations), Kevin Adonis when contacted by this publication said the situation remains the same.
The body, suspected to be that of Vyfhuis of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, was discovered on July 25, 2018, clad in a white T-shirt and grey jeans, along with a pair of blue sneakers.
Vyfhuis’s body was reportedly found by a pork-knocker some four miles away from the campsite where he was employed, and was later identified by his employer.
The man’s employers — of the said community from which Vyfhuis originated — are owners of a mining camp in the interior. They told this newspaper that the man had been mentally ill and that they were unaware of this when they had hired him.
One of the employers explained that the man had left for the interior on July 11, 2018.
She related that after he arrived at the mining camp, he had been acting strangely, and had even told them that somebody wanted to kill him.
She further related that other workers at the camp attempted to control Vyfhuis’s absurd behaviour, but without success.
She said that as a result of this behaviour, on July 15, 2018, when they were about to escort the man to his home, he ran away.
The man’s sister is, however, claiming that her brother never suffered from any mental disorders.

Dead: Patrick Vyfhuis