Partially decomposed body yet to be identified

… 3 months after discovery

More than three months after a partially-decomposed body, believed to be that of Patrick Vyphuis, was discovered in a mining camp, in Kuribrong, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), investigators are yet to confirm the man’s identity.
Baffled family members, while still trying to cope with the news of Vyphuis’s death, have since buried his 19-year-old son, who was killed in Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway a few days ago while attempting to make peace between an abusive man and his reputed wife.
Odessia Spencer, Vyphuis’s sister, said she believed more ought to be done and noted that the family suspected his employers may have been involved.
F Division (Interior Locations) Commander Kevin Adonis told Guyana Times that a DNA test was yet to be conducted as the remains suspected to be those of Vyphuis were at a mortuary in Georgetown.
During a previous interview, the now dead man’s employers Alvin and Rosetta Jaisingh, of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, related that he was mentally unstable.
Rosetta Jaisingh explained that the man had left for the interior on July 11, 2018.

She related that after he arrived at the mining camp, he began acting strange and even told them that somebody wanted to kill him.
Jaisingh recalled, “He went in with my husband and when he go in, everything was okay. He cooked and so. After they reach in, everything was good. The next day now, he came to my husband and he tell him that look (names given) coming to kill meh. Me husband said he turn and tell him, bai, relax yourself nah. So, he said the night now he keep running into the bush and wan run to the creek and so.”
It was further related by her that other workers at the camp attempted to control the man’s absurd behaviour, but failed.
She noted that as a result of this, on July 15, 2018, they were about to escort the man to his home.
“When he reach on the landing, he start running up and down at all them shops. So they (ended up) getting him back into the Cruiser and while going out now, he messed his skin up, so they stopped at a creek to wash off him, because he can’t go in the vehicle like that. So when they stop now, he run and gone in the bush,” Jaisingh said.
According to her, three other employees again chased the man, but failed in their attempts to retrieve him.
A report, she said, was subsequently made to the Bartica and Mahdia Police Stations. Vyphuis’s body, she added, was later discovered by a pork-knocker some four miles away from the mining site.
The now dead man’s sister rebutted these allegations and stated that her brother did not suffer from any mental illnesses. The family remains shattered and is still calling for justice to be served.
The body, suspected to be that of Vyphuis was discovered on July 25, 2018, clad in a white T-shirt and grey jeans, along with a pair of blue sneakers.
It was later identified by his employer.