Police are investigating the discovery of the decomposing body of a pensioner who was found outside his Siparia home yesterday.
Investigators said around 10.10 am, Dillon Green reported that he went to La Pastora Street to check on his father’s friend, who he knew only as Mr Bars. On walking into the yard, he found the man’s body at the bottom of the staircase leading to the house.
When Sgt Ali and officers of the Siparia Police Station checked, they found body in an advanced state of decomposition. Relatives were contacted and he was identified as 71-year-old Junior Pena.
Relatives said Pena lived alone and suffered from diabetes and Parkinson’s disease for many years. Police said they will wait for the results of an autopsy, carded for tomorrow at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, to ascertain the cause of death.