South­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the deaths of two men over the week­end, in­clud­ing a de­com­pos­ing body dis­cov­ered at a house in Ste Madeleine.

Of­fi­cers from the Ste Madeleine Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to a re­port of a foul stench at a house on Jaipaul Street at 5.52 am on Sat­ur­day. Up­on ar­rival, WPC Brown-Gar­cia and PC Far­row spoke with a neigh­bour, who said he last saw 65-year-old Tim­o­thy Har­rycha­ran on No­vem­ber 2.

The neigh­bour told po­lice that Har­rycha­ran lived alone. The neigh­bour said that last Sun­day evening, the lights were off, the front door was open, and calls went unan­swered to Har­rycha­ran’s house. Of­fi­cers en­tered the home and found Har­rycha­ran dead, ly­ing on his back. His body ap­peared to al­ready be in a state of de­com­po­si­tion. Fur­ther in­quiries re­vealed that Har­rycha­ran was re­port­ed­ly not suf­fer­ing from any known ill­ness­es.

Mean­while, Bar­rack­pore po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the sud­den death of a 74-year-old man at his home on St Croix Road, Princes Town. The man, Robert Moren­zie, was last seen alive on No­vem­ber 3 around 3 pm. A neigh­bour dis­cov­ered him ly­ing dead on the floor on Fri­day morn­ing and con­tact­ed the po­lice.

PC Toll and WPC Mo­hammed re­spond­ed and con­firmed that Moren­zie showed no signs of life. There were no marks of vi­o­lence on the body, and a Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer or­dered that it be re­moved to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal mor­tu­ary pend­ing a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion sched­uled for to­day.

Po­lice con­tin­ue to in­ves­ti­gate both deaths. —Kevon Felmine