Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice of­fi­cers are ques­tion­ing a man in con­nec­tion with the death of miss­ing 13-year-old Joash Pan­tin at Cashew Gar­dens, Long­denville.

Pan­tin’s body was found in some bush­es a few me­tres away from his home in an area known as “Cashew on the Hill” around 8 pm Mon­day.

Rel­a­tives and neigh­bours said the chil­dren in the com­mu­ni­ty said they last saw him on Sat­ur­day when he went to the com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre to play foot­ball, a rou­tine for him.

Pan­tin was last seen at about 7.30 pm on Sat­ur­day and was re­port­ed miss­ing to the Long­denville Po­lice Post on Sun­day by his moth­er and grand­moth­er.

A par­ty of po­lice of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing ASP Wayne Mys­tar, vis­it­ed the scene Mon­day. The Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer (DMO) viewed the body and or­dered its re­moval to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre for an au­top­sy Tues­day.

A se­nior of­fi­cer at the scene Mon­day told the T&T Guardian that the DMO was un­able to de­ter­mine the cause of death due to the ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion of the body. How­ev­er, he not­ed that the boy suf­fered from asth­ma and was re­port­ed­ly known to get se­ri­ous at­tacks at times.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.