Body of drowned youth washed ashore

Yesterday, The body of Ken Marcelle, a 21-year-old sign painter, who drowned while bathing at Toco last Sunday, washed ashore eight miles from where he drowned.

Reports revealed that around 1.10 pm yesterday, bathers at O’ Halloran Trace, Toco, saw a body being washed ashore. A report was made to the Toco Police Station and a party of officers along with a District Medical Officer went to the scene. Marcelle was a member of a Seventh-Day Adventist camp of youngsters who were spending the Carnival weekend at Cumana. Reports revealed that around 1 pm last Sunday, Marcelle and his friends finished bathing in the sea, but Marcelle decided to take a ‘last dip’. The boy’s father, Michael Marcelle, said he had asked his son not to go on the outing but he was anxious to go to Toco. Toco villagers and the Coast Guard were called out to assist in locating the body to no avail. Relatives of the dead man were at the beach front yesterday when the body washed ashore.