JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Broken neck suspected in pensioner’s death

by

KEVON FELMINE
25 days ago
20250131

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the ac­ci­den­tal death of a Rousil­lac man, who was found life­less with a bro­ken neck.

Sev­en­ty-four-year-old Michael “Kan­gal” De Las, of Boodoos­ingh Lane, was known by res­i­dents to be an ex­ces­sive al­co­hol drinker and suf­fered from a men­tal dis­or­der. He had al­so sur­vived a heart at­tack just three months ago.

Po­lice re­ports stat­ed that De Las left his home around 10 am on Wednes­day to trav­el to Point Fortin. Lat­er that evening, around 7.50 pm, a neigh­bour spot­ted him walk­ing un­steadi­ly along Boodoos­ingh Lane to­wards his house. The neigh­bour, fa­mil­iar with De Las’ fre­quent be­hav­iour, ini­tial­ly thought noth­ing of it. How­ev­er, as he watched, De Las sud­den­ly swayed to the side of the road, lost his foot­ing, and col­lapsed.

The neigh­bour told po­lice, he rushed to check on De Las and found him ly­ing mo­tion­less, his head rest­ing against a con­crete drain. He con­tact­ed the Emer­gency Health Ser­vice and the E999 po­lice hot­line.

Cpl Ram­nar­ine and PC Ja­cob ar­rived at the scene, along with para­medics who said De Las showed no signs of life.

While the DMO sus­pect­ed that the pen­sion­er died as a re­sult of a bro­ken neck, po­lice are wait­ing for an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine the ex­act cause of death.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored