Hay­den Wil­son, the great un­cle of Joash Pan­tin, 13, be­lieves the lit­tle boy was mur­dered by a psy­chopath liv­ing with­in the com­mu­ni­ty.

“Peo­ple who al­leged­ly did this act, the per­pe­tra­tors, it is hard to go in their mind as to why they did this... Maybe they are a psy­chopath or so­ciopath be­cause that is ba­si­cal­ly what it is be­cause they killed my great nephew,” Wil­son told Guardian Me­dia.

Wil­son al­so ex­pressed dis­gust and dis­ap­point­ment in the way the po­lice of­fi­cers have han­dled this case from Sat­ur­day when the miss­ing re­port was made by Pan­tin's moth­er and grand­moth­er.

Up to mid­day Tues­day the body had not been es­cort­ed to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, for the au­top­sy.

"We have been here since 9 am and up to now the po­lice have not ar­rived with the body," Wil­son said as the fam­i­ly gath­ered at the FSC for the au­top­sy.

"His body was found ten me­tres from his grand­moth­er's house bloat­ed and de­com­pos­ing, that by it­self shows the man­ner in which the po­lice did their work," he added.

Pan­tin’s body was found in some bush­es just a few me­tres away from his home at Cashew Gar­dens, Long­denville, at about 6 pm Mon­day.

Speak­ing with the T&T Guardian Mon­day night a res­i­dent said chil­dren in the com­mu­ni­ty said they last saw him on Sat­ur­day when he went to the com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre to play “his usu­al” game of foot­ball. Pan­tin was last seen at about 7.30 pm on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice has con­firmed that a sus­pect is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody as­sist­ing in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.