Cops return body

HOMICIDE detectives will have to wait at least a month before the results of the toxicology tests performed on the body of a 50-year-old construction worker are available. The tests were requested by the police after they seized the body of Uriah Henry Guy, of Postman Drive, Enterprise, Chaguanas, following information they received that he may have been murdered. Police sources told Newsday yesterday the results of the blood and tissue samples taken from the body at the Forensic Sciences Centre, at St James, on Wednesday, were still being analysed. Meanwhile the man’s body was released to his family and yesterday Guy was laid to rest at the Union Village cemetery, at Rio Claro, following a service at the village’s Open Bible Church. Investigators told Newsday in the event that the tests proved that Guy had been murdered, there would be no need to exhume the body, since blood and tissue samples had already been taken.      

Guy died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mount Hope on May 27 — two days after he was admitted to hospital after complaining of health problems. A post mortem revealed that death was due to septicemia in the lungs. Last Sunday police seized the man’s body at a funeral home in Rio Claro, mere moments before he was to be buried. Police were subsequently granted a court order to have a second autopsy performed on the body at the Forensic Sciences Centre, and for the toxicology tests to be conducted. The father of two sons had died four days before be was supposed to be married to his common-law-wife Rowtie Boodoo, 58. His son Atkinson Ferguson, 28, of Mayaro, told Newsday that his father had been sharing a relationship with Boodoo for the past 21 years, and he had been looking forward to being legally married.