–three in custody
By Heppilena Ferguson
A relentless search by relatives of a Linden man who went missing eight days ago, ended on Monday when they discovered his body in a six-inch shallow grave some five miles from where he worked as a logger on the Makouria Trail, Essequibo River.
Dead is 29-year old Aubrey Griffith of Blue Berry Hill, Squatting Area Linden. Two men, who had reportedly threatened Griffith the day before he went missing, as well as a woman, are in police custody assisting with investigations. Police in a press release yesterday said that following up with investigations into a missing person’s report made on April 30, Griffith’s body was found in a shallow grave along the Makouria Trail. Police also said that the body bore suspected marks of violence to the abdomen and a post-mortem examination is to be performed shortly.
Speaking with this newspaper yesterday, the man’s mother, Amelia Gill, who travelled to Georgetown from Linden with her son’s body, said that the Sunday before her son went missing he was involved in an altercation with two brothers from the neighbourhood over a bicycle wheel.
