The de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found in an apart­ment at Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, on Wednes­day.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tim as Er­ic Joseph, 58 – a land­lord of Tot­ten­ham Lane, La Soli­ta Road.

The po­lice were no­ti­fied around 12.50 pm on April 10, of a foul smell com­ing from the dead man’s room in one of the apart­ments on the sec­ond floor.

Res­i­dents in the build­ing last re­port­ed see­ing Joseph, who was born in Eng­land, around 4.30 pm on April 5, whilst calls to his cell phone be­tween then and yes­ter­day morn­ing went unan­swered.

It was on­ly yes­ter­day when a few ten­ants in the build­ing went to check on Joseph – whose door was bolt­ed and locked from the in­side – that they be­came aware of the stench em­a­nat­ing from his room and con­tact­ed the po­lice.

Of­fi­cers lat­er found Joseph’s body which was in an ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion, ly­ing on its’ back on the floor of the 15 by 15 room.

Joseph’s ten­ants claimed he lived alone.

Man ar­rest­ed at mosque

A Diego Mar­tin man was ar­rest­ed dur­ing yes­ter­day’s Eid cel­e­bra­tions at a mosque af­ter he was held with a gun and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion as he at­tend­ed the re­li­gious pro­ceed­ings.

The 28-year-old of Cuth­bert Cir­cu­lar, Four Roads – was held dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise which was car­ried out be­tween 12 noon and 4 pm.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion, of­fi­cers from the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force led by Snr Supt Garvin Hen­ry, went to the mosque at Wil­son Road, Diego Mar­tin and ob­served a group of men stand­ing on the south side of the build­ing.

Up­on see­ing the po­lice, it was re­port­ed that one man took off run­ning to­wards a dirt track on the east­ern side.

It is al­leged that dur­ing the chase, the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly threw what ap­peared to be a firearm, in some bush­es.

Of­fi­cers were able to ap­pre­hend the sus­pect and fol­low­ing an ex­ten­sive search of the area, law­men re­cov­ered a Glock 17 pis­tol equipped with an au­to­mat­ic fir­ing se­lec­tor and loaded with sev­en­teen 17 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion.

Laven­tille res­i­dent crit­i­cal af­ter shoot­ing

A Laven­tille man who was shot by armed gun­men as he drove along the East­ern Main Road, re­mained hos­pi­talised in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion yes­ter­day.

Re­ports in­di­cate the 32-year-old man of Spring Vil­lage, Trou Macaque, was dri­ving his white Nis­san B14, around 5.20 pm on Wednes­day, when gun­men opened fire on him in the vicin­i­ty of An­gos­tu­ra.

Turn­ing on­to the La­dy Young Road as he at­tempt­ed to es­cape, the in­jured man lost con­trol of the car which veered off the road.

Shot sev­er­al times about the body, the vic­tim was as­sist­ed by passers­by who wit­nessed the in­ci­dent as the gun­men sped off.

Mean­while, the vic­tim’s car was pushed on­to the shoul­der of the La­dy Young Road by per­sons who came out to as­sist.

It was lat­er towed by Soo Hong Wreck­ing Ser­vices to the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion.

He was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex.