Psychiatric hospital escapee did not have mental illness

The mother of Oswayn Littleton Vieira, whose decomposed body was found in the Canje River after he escaped from the New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital (NAPH), is insisting that he did not suffer from a mental ailment.

Jennifer Sobers, speaking with reporters in Berbice yesterday, explained that last year she had taken her son to see the doctor and it was never determined that he suffered from any psychiatric disorders. This visit, a clinic card showed, was made to the doctor on October 5 last year. “They bring me son from town and look wa happen…they kill me chile…ow they kill me son,” Sobers said between wails.

Reports reaching this newspaper had said that Vieira,