SHAS­TRI BOODAN

GML Cor­re­spon­dent

Rel­a­tives have found the body of the man be­lieved to be re­spon­si­ble for as­sault­ing a woman who re­mains co­matose and in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal.

Arnold Ganesh, 44, was dis­cov­ered on Tues­day around 10:30 am by rel­a­tives.

Ganesh’s body was found in a de­com­pos­ing state and hang­ing 15 feet off the ground from a tree lo­cat­ed in bushy lands next to Dal­phus Av­enue, Thomp­son Road, Palmiste, in the Carlsen Field area. The scene was vis­it­ed by po­lice from the Long­denville Po­lice Post.

An­dre Wil­son, the el­der broth­er of the de­ceased, said rel­a­tives had been search­ing for Ganesh for the last five days fol­low­ing a fam­i­ly dis­pute. Wil­son and an­oth­er rel­a­tive dis­cov­ered the body.

“The last thing he told me [was] that he drank the poi­son and was go­ing to hang him­self,” Wil­son told Guardian Me­dia.

He said the death of his broth­er was heart­break­ing.

“It has been a hard five days,” he said. “We have been look­ing for him, hop­ing that we would have found him alive. To­day be­ing the 31st of De­cem­ber, it’s a date we would re­mem­ber.”

Wil­son said Ganesh was a builder and the two shared a good re­la­tion­ship. Ac­cord­ing to Wil­son, Ganesh was hav­ing trou­ble with a fe­male rel­a­tive whom the de­ceased had known for 11 years.

“It has al­ways been a trou­ble­some re­la­tion­ship, back and forth, back and forth,” he ex­plained.

Wil­son said Ganesh al­leged­ly as­sault­ed the 32-year-old fe­male rel­a­tive twice with a piece of iron in­side a house they shared at Dal­phus Trace, Thomp­son Road, be­fore drink­ing a poi­so­nous sub­stance. He then pro­ceed­ed to lock the front door, leav­ing the woman in­side.

She was dis­cov­ered short­ly af­ter by her 10-year-old son who alert­ed rel­a­tives, and the bat­tered woman was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal.

Wil­son said the woman re­mains in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at hos­pi­tal and is in an in­duced co­ma.