Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port that a man who was re­port­ed miss­ing may have been killed, af­ter his moth­er told of­fi­cers she re­ceived mul­ti­ple calls claim­ing he was shot dur­ing an al­ter­ca­tion in the Beetham area and his body dumped in near­by lo­ca­tions.

A re­port has been made to po­lice con­cern­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of 46-year-old Ja­mal Jes­sop, who was last seen on De­cem­ber 20.

The re­port states that Sher­ry Ann Jes­sop told of­fi­cers her son has been suf­fer­ing from a men­tal ill­ness for sev­er­al years and has been re­ceiv­ing med­ica­tion and treat­ment through St Ann’s. She in­di­cat­ed that this was the first time he had ever been miss­ing for such a pro­longed pe­ri­od.

Po­lice fur­ther record­ed that lat­er on De­cem­ber 21, Jes­sop re­ceived sev­er­al tele­phone calls from peo­ple known to her. She de­clined to iden­ti­fy them, cit­ing fears that do­ing so could en­dan­ger their lives.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­port, the callers claimed that Ja­mal Jes­sop was killed some­time be­tween 2 am and 6 am on De­cem­ber 21 af­ter an al­ter­ca­tion at Phase 1, First Street, Beetham, dur­ing which he was shot.

The in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed al­leged that his body was dumped ei­ther in a swamp at Sea Lots or near the WASA pump at Clear Wa­ter, along the Beetham High­way in Laven­tille.

Based on the in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, po­lice con­duct­ed ex­ten­sive search­es on De­cem­ber 21 be­tween 3 pm and mid­night in the ar­eas iden­ti­fied. The re­port not­ed that the search­es were se­vere­ly ham­pered by poor light­ing con­di­tions, dense fo­liage and dif­fi­cult-to-ac­cess ter­rain.

No body was found.

Po­lice said search­es are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue from 8 am on De­cem­ber 22 un­der im­proved light­ing con­di­tions, as in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­main on­go­ing.