Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

“No one van­ish­es in thin air,” lament­ed An­tho­ny Hen­wood, the broth­er of 56-year-old Mar­lon Hen­wood, who has been miss­ing for over a month.

De­spite a $10,000 re­ward, Hen­wood, who lives abroad, said no one has come for­ward with any in­for­ma­tion about his broth­er’s where­abouts.

Mar­lon suf­fers from a de­vel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ty and a speech im­ped­i­ment, which makes com­mu­ni­ca­tion dif­fi­cult.

He has dual Cana­di­an/Trinida­di­an cit­i­zen­ship but lives with his moth­er at the fam­i­ly’s home in Siparia.

Mar­lon’s moth­er, Lin­da Hen­wood, told Guardian Me­dia that her son likes morn­ing walks. Rel­a­tives were told that on March 1, Car­ni­val Mon­day, he was beat­en by strangers. Some­one took him to the Siparia Health Cen­tre af­ter they saw him bleed­ing on the road. He was then trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Mar­lon’s moth­er re­called that al­most his en­tire face was ban­daged, and an X-ray and CT scan were done. She was told to re­turn around 9 am the next day to meet the doc­tor.

How­ev­er, when she ar­rived around 9.30 am with her grand­son, she was told that he was dis­charged and he left.

Mar­lon’s broth­er ques­tioned why he was al­lowed to leave the hos­pi­tal be­fore his moth­er ar­rived.

De­spite search­es by the Hunters Search and Res­cue Teams and as­sis­tance from In­ter­pol and the Cana­di­an Em­bassy, he said, they have got­ten no clos­er to find­ing his broth­er.

Hen­wood, who has been search­ing through­out the coun­try for his broth­er, said he would not “feel com­fort­able” re­turn­ing home with Mar­lon still miss­ing. Mean­while, their moth­er has been pray­ing for Mar­lon’s safe re­turn.

“On­ly God alone knows. Every­thing is in God’s hands now. It is sad,” she lament­ed.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on his lo­ca­tion has been asked to con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion, 999 or 800-TIPS.