Former boxer died of smoke inhalation, autopsy finds

The autopsy performed yesterday on the man who perished in Thursday’s fire at his Farm, East Bank Essequibo home found that he died of smoke inhalation, while his sister said that the property he was living on was the subject of a dispute.

Former boxer Godfrey Alexander, 72, died early Thursday morning in his house, which went up in flames shortly after the cottage at the front began burning. Authorities have said that they suspect that it was an arson attack, since there was no visible evidence that Alexander’s house was burnt from flames spreading from the cottage at the front, given the distance apart and the fact that the many trees which separated them remained un-scorched.

Alexander’s sister, Jahmilah Rahaman, who is blind, yesterday visited Stabroek News and informed that she