Teacher found dead

AFTER being alerted by worried relatives, neighbours of primary school teacher Aleem Jaffarali, 49, discovered his decomposed body at the back of his Penal home on Sunday night. However, police do not suspect foul play in the teacher’s death since there were no marks of violence and he had recently been complaining of chest pains. Jaffarali was supposed to have met his relatives yesterday to go on a fishing trip. When he did not turn up, the relatives telephoned his home but there was no answer. Concerned that something may have happened to him, the relatives telephoned his neighours and asked them to check on him. Around 8.30 am, the neighbours went to the teacher’s Katwaroo Trace, Penal home where they found Jaffarali’s body lying at the back of the building, near some steps.  Jaffarali, a teacher at the Rock Road Presbyterian Primary School, lived alone.

Investigators said the deceased had spoken with his brother-in-law Fernando Ramcharitar, of San Fernando, last Friday and had agreed to go on a fishing lime with him yesterday. His relatives told police that ealier this month, Jaffarali complained of chest pains and they advised him to seek medical attention, but he refused. A team of officers headed by Sgt Wazir Mohammed and including PC Jagroop and others visited the scene. District Medical Officer Dr Carmona viewed the body and ordered its removal to the Forensic Sciences Centre where an autopsy was scheduled to be carried out yesterday. Police said nothing was missing from the teacher’s house. Sgt Mohammed is continuing investigations.