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.
