Victoria man was bludgeoned to death, 1 in custody – Police

Forty-two-year-old Woodrow John Lepps, who was on Monday last found dead in an abandoned building at Victoria, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was bludgeoned to death.
This was according to Regional Commander Khali Pareshram during a telephone interview with Guyana Times. He further explained that a post-mortem performed on the body, proved that he died from a blunt trauma to the head.
The Commander also said that one person, a man of unsound mind, was arrested and was subsequently taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for medical treatment. “That investigation is still in progress,” the Commander revealed.
The discovery of Lepps’s body was made in the old school building on Monday last with a gaping wound to the head.
Following the discovery, Lepps’s relatives told detectives that he did odd jobs for persons in the community. The now dead man reportedly visited his foster sister, Rita Lepps, at her Belfield, ECD home one day prior to his demise to collect his breakfast as he usually would, and left.
However, the following day, the dead man’s sister said she received information that her brother was found dead in the abandoned building where he would usually stay.
Upon her arrival at the scene, she explained that her brother’s body was lying in the building with a wound to his head and there were bloodstains on the walls.
The dead man’s sister alleged that her brother might have had an argument with someone and was beaten to death.
However, in a report days after the incident occurred, Police had stated that the man suffered from epilepsy. However, his family insisted that he was murdered by someone in the community.
The probe continues.