$500,000 extraction bill for 88-y-o believed dead
Published:Wednesday | January 5, 2022 | 12:11 AM
The family of 88-year-old Kenneth Brown, the senior citizen from Bent Town in Mulgrave district, St Elizabeth, who went missing from his home since December 18, say they are unable to come up with $500,000 to pay residents to remove a decomposing body, believed to be his, from a sinkhole in the community.
Reports are that Brown went missing for more than two weeks and his body was believed to have been discovered on New Year’s Eve by one of his sons, who had formed a search party.
Brown is believed to have been suffering from a degenerative illness that affects his memory.
“Mi father a good man, but as the years go by, as far as me see it, it look like him start lose reasoning, so him stray,” said Brown’s son, who gave his name as Lee.
Lee, a Rastafarian, said that attempts to enter the hole to extract the body have been unsuccessful.
Another resident who gave her name as Careen Blackwood told The Gleaner that the pungent odour from the sinkhole has blanketed the community and added her voice to the lobby for external assistance.