Fifty-year-old Phillip Adams was already in bed on Saturday night when he was approached by some fellow church members who were stranded and needed a drop home.
He willingly agreed. It was to be his last journey as minutes after he left his Canal Bank, Port Kaituma, North West District home, a boat piloted by an intoxicated young man who was earlier “showing off his skills” on the waterway slammed into his small boat.
The body of Adams, a father of three, was recovered just around 3am yesterday, hours after the accident that also left nine-year-old Nikesha James dead. James, her mother and other siblings were in the boat with Phillip and his wife Eslyn Benn and her two young children including a nine-month–old baby.
Yesterday, residents in the area were angry that the man who was operating the boat that struck Adams’ vessel had escaped.
