A sec­ond au­top­sy was done yes­ter­day on the body of pris­on­er Placid Aimard Li­ma, who was beat­en to death while at Gold­en Grove Re­mand Yard on Sun­day.The find­ings of the au­top­sy, done by pathol­o­gist Prof Hu­bert Dais­ley at a fu­ner­al home in Pe­nal, will be re­leased lat­er to­day by lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Li­ma's fam­i­ly.But yes­ter­day Li­ma's broth­er, Bri­an, in a tele­phone in­ter­view, said Dais­ley told rel­a­tives that the 47-year-old fa­ther of two died from blunt-force trau­ma.

This ap­peared to be con­sis­tent with the find­ings of the first au­top­sy, done on Mon­day by pathol­o­gist Dr Hughvon des Vi­gnes, which con­clud­ed that Li­ma died from mul­ti­ple blunt-force in­juries.

Bri­an said from the in­juries on his broth­er's body, it seemed a weapon such as a staff or a ba­ton was used to beat him.A source said Dais­ley's re­port not­ed that Li­ma suf­fered a painful death as all his ribs on the left side were bro­ken.

Dais­ley al­so con­clud­ed that Li­ma's left lung col­lapsed and he was as­sault­ed with a long, blunt ob­ject which was in­sert­ed in­to his rec­tum. This caused mas­sive in­ter­nal in­juries. Li­ma was al­so stabbed."He died from licks, blows to his body with a blunt ob­ject. From what he (Dais­ley) said, I sus­pect is a ba­ton that they used. I saw his body. I know a pris­on­er would not have an ob­ject to cause that dam­age."It is not a fist that could have caused that dam­age," Bri­an in­sist­ed yes­ter­day.

His sis­ter Glo­ria, who was al­so at the fu­ner­al home, said she was in the process of get­ting a le­gal aid at­tor­ney for her broth­er on Mon­day when she re­ceived the news that he had died in prison.Li­ma ap­peared in the Siparia Mag­is­trates Court last week Fri­day on a bench war­rant which was is­sued for him for a 25-year-old rape case in­volv­ing a 17-year-old girl.He was sent to the Re­mand Yard of the Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca and was ex­pect­ed to re­turn to court to­day.

A re­port said around 11.45 pm on Sun­day, he got in­to an al­ter­ca­tion with ten oth­er in­mates and was re­port­ed­ly beat­en for sev­er­al min­utes be­fore prison guards heard the com­mo­tion and in­ter­vened. He col­lapsed and was tak­en to the prison in­fir­mary and was lat­er trans­ferred to hos­pi­tal, where he died.Fu­ner­al arrange­ments are yet to be fi­nalised.