Two weeks after URP worker Robert "Peter" Navarro told relatives he was going to meet a friend at San Fernando Hill, his decomposing corpse was found hanging in a tree near the bottom of the hill.Police could not tell how 31-year-old Navarro, of Ambard Street, San Fernando, was killed, but relatives believe he was either shot or stabbed and his body thrown off the hill.Police said that around 4 pm on Christmas Eve, a man was hunting for iguanas at the back of the San Fernando City Corporation's compound, along Carib Street, when he saw the corpse slumped over a tree branch.
After speaking to other residents, the man went to Navarro's relatives' home at Upper Hillside to break the news. It took undertakers several hours to remove the body, which was stuck in a tree rooted on the hill.Navarro's sister, Yolanda Navarro, said her brother got a call-me request on December 9 and responded to it. Around 1 pm, he went to the hill and left his phone at home. When he did not return, his friend Henry Solzano reported him missing to San Fernando police.Homicide officers and the police K-9 unit searched the hill, but Navarro could not be found.
Two days later, she said, corbeaux were circling the area where the body was found. She chastised police for not doing a proper search."If he was a rich person, they would have done a proper search and found him a long time now," Yolanda said.She continued: "Every night I prayed for Peter to send me a sign and to show us where he was. Each time I would see him in a jockey, he was muddy and he looked sad. Now I see why, someone killed him and threw him off the hill."His cousin Peggy Gomes said even though his body was found, there would only be closure when his killer is arrested and imprisoned.