‘Silver’ found dead with smashed face, gaping wounds outside ECD home
The lifeless body of 47-year-old Theodore Baynes also known as ‘Silver’ was found outside his Lot 40 Haslington North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Monday with a smashed face, a gaping wound to his neck, and cuts on his back and other parts of his body.
Baynes who worked as a carpenter and a father of two lived in the bottom flat of his cousin’s house. He was last seen alive on Sunday evening at about 20:00h by his wife when she visited him along with his five-year-old son.
The couple was recently separated due to a misunderstanding, but Peters still maintained contact with Baynes and would visit him frequently.
Dead: Theodore Baynes, known as ‘Silver’
“I was at home on Monday morning when a friend called me and said she heard something was wrong with him. She told me to call him, but when I tried, I couldn’t get through. She then told me to come to Haslington immediately,” the man’s reputed wife, Towanna Peters recalled.
When Peters arrived, she said she observed a crowd gathered at the scene, but Bayne’s body had already been removed. “I was told that when the police arrived, his phone and wallet were missing, his apartment door was open, but nothing else in the house was touched,” she added.
The woman told the Guyana Times that the brutal nature of Bayne’s injuries has left his family in shock and still baffled.
“I know he used to drink, but I don’t understand what and how something like this could happen. I don’t know what could cause this. His face was smashed in, he had a slash to the neck, and he had cuts all over his body,” the woman stated.
However, a male suspect has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder. Peters is struggling to come to terms with the loss and the impact it has on their young son, who keeps asking when his father will return home.
“This is such a shock. Up to now, I can’t catch myself. Our son keeps asking me when his father is coming home and if he is going to come home. I don’t know what to tell him. I’ll just have to try,” she said tearfully as she called for justice.
“Whoever is responsible for this must be held accountable for what they did.” An investigation is underway. (LaWanda McAllister)
