Senior Reporter
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The public’s help is being sought to identify the decomposing body of a man found bound and stuffed inside a crocus bag dumped on Monos Island, Chaguaramas, yesterday.
Police confirmed the discovery after being notified by a resident on the island that the unusual bag had been spotted along the shoreline.
One man described the gruesome discovery, saying, “A foul stench was coming from the bag and there was liquid oozing from it. Upon opening it and peeping inside, we saw a hand.”
The resident said he immediately contacted the police. The unidentified victim’s hands and feet were bound, and he was wearing only a pair of black short pants.
The discovery has unnerved members of the island’s small community. The resident, who requested anonymity, said, “It brings the horror home to the island.”
He added, “We have never had something of this nature occur on the island.”
Describing the community as a tight-knit family, he said, “We can only hope this came from outside the bay.”
He explained that while the island was usually quiet during the week, weekends and public holidays often attracted large crowds of visitors and partygoers on excursions.
He estimated that more than 200 people would have passed through the area last weekend.
The resident identified garbage left behind by visitors as one of the island’s biggest problems, adding that the discovery had shaken some residents who had chosen to live there “to escape the craziness of the mainland.”
Saying he was in the process of installing CCTV cameras, the resident said yesterday’s find would hasten that process and hopefully enable him, “to get back my peace of mind.”
