Mem­bers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) yes­ter­day found the body of a miss­ing man in a shal­low grave at Men­tor Al­ley, Laven­tille.

Diego Mar­tin taxi dri­ver Derek Con­stance, 30, of Gokool Street was re­port­ed miss­ing to the po­lice on Oc­to­ber 28 by his com­mon-law wife.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, short­ly af­ter 2 pm res­i­dents re­port­ed a foul stench in the area.

Of­fi­cers from the IATF re­spond­ed but their search was lim­it­ed be­cause of a down­pour of rain.

Af­ter the rain ceased, the of­fi­cers re­turned to the area with ca­dav­er dogs and found the shal­low grave.

The de­com­pos­ing body was even­tu­al­ly re­trieved. It bore sev­er­al gun­shot wounds about the body, po­lice said.

Con­stance’s com­mon-law-wife de­scribed him to the po­lice as mixed de­scent, five feet nine inch­es tall, slim built, with a brown com­plex­ion and a corn­row hair­style.

She told them that he was last seen wear­ing a dark-coloured jer­sey, a pair of three-quar­ter blue pants and a pair of blue slip­pers. He al­so has a ‘Red Skull’ tat­too on his neck. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.