An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

Homi­cide of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel from the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), were called to Tyri­co Beach at Mara­cas Bay yes­ter­day morn­ing, af­ter a body was dis­cov­ered in some bush­es.

The grue­some find oc­curred short­ly af­ter 8 am, when a fe­male beach­go­er had gone to the bush­es near the ac­cess road to re­lieve her­self. She re­port­ed­ly ran out scream­ing af­ter see­ing the corpse of an East In­di­an man ly­ing face down.

Po­lice ar­rived to find the uniden­ti­fied vic­tim bound and gagged.
De­spite the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion, beach vis­i­tors con­tin­ued to ar­rive, set­ting up tents and chairs seem­ing­ly un­aware of the scene un­fold­ing near­by.

On so­cial me­dia, Ann Marie Moore post­ed, “This place is full of evil peo­ple. Here nah, this Sun­day morn­ing go­ing so good l lov­ing the vibes. And then up comes the dev­il and his min­ions and sour the vibes. Lord have mer­cy.”

Oth­ers ques­tioned the ef­fec­tive­ness of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Chrys­tal Mor­ton com­ment­ed: “This is so sad, as some­one who lives just a minute from the beach, I have been say­ing for years at night there is al­ways very loud mu­sic play­ing on that beach if some­one is to be bawl­ing for help no one can hear them. Years ago, I had a neigh­bour whose girl­friend was killed and she was left for dead be­cause every­one be­lieved it was peo­ple on the beach mak­ing noise. This is just sad.”

As beach­go­ers set­tled to en­joy the sun, sand and sea at Tyri­co Beach, tragedy struck again.
Just be­fore 4 pm, an uniden­ti­fied man was said to have en­coun­tered dif­fi­cul­ties while bathing and drowned.

The in­ci­dent, which was cap­tured in a two-minute record­ing and post­ed on­line, showed oth­er sea-bathers pulling the man’s body from the wa­ter whilst a woman was heard scream­ing.