Thirty-eight year-old Dexter Jimmy Kennedy, who went missing from his Two Friends East Coast Demerara home in September, is somewhere in the Berbice area tending to some cows and living in a abandoned house, according to reports reaching this newspaper.
The man went missing in early September and his relatives feared he had died because he had received death threats over stealing fruit in the Ann’s Grove backdam. The relatives had searched the Ann’s Grove backdam for him as there were some reports that he had been killed and his body burnt.
However, Stabroek News has been told by a close friend of the man’s relatives that he has been living in Berbice even though the friend was not sure of the precise area. It is understood that some men from Ann’s Grove went to Berbice and saw Kennedy, after which they contacted his relatives who then spoke to him on a cellular phone belonging to one of the men. The man then took the relatives to see Kennedy in Berbice where he reportedly told them that he had been blindfolded and taken to Berbice. He said that when the blindfold had been removed from his eyes he found himself in among some cows and sheep. He has since been living in an abandoned house and tending to the cattle. According to reports the man’s relatives said he “deh good.”
The man had left his home after he had been called away from the house by a woman who his relatives said had taken him to the backdam to steal.
The relatives had been convinced that he was dead because he had been threatened several times as well as beaten over stealing fruit from farmers in the backdam. They had freely acknowledged that he was in the habit of stealing fruit from the backdam farms and had been jailed twice for praedial larceny. Once, his relatives said, he had been tied up and beaten and had only been set free after someone begged for him.
They alleged that the woman who had called him away was a fruit vendor in Bourda Market, and that she used to get Kennedy to steal the fruit which she would then sell. “I tell he already dat woman go put him in trouble,” his aunt had said. “And whenever she see any one of us she does send somebody to call him. She don’t come she self. I don’t know what influence she got over he but he does always go when she call him.”
