Man in apparent suicide at Norton St hotel

The body of a man who it is suspected committed suicide was yesterday found in a hotel on Norton Street after the woman he was with raised an alarm to the staff that he had tried to strangle her.

Dead is Egleton Grant, 37, of Linden whose body was found by police in a room at The Shack Inn and Bar on Norton Street after he apparently slit his throat and ingested a noxious substance.

An employee of the hotel told Stabroek News that the man and a woman booked a `short time’