Cotton Field pensioner commits suicide

Sukhdeo Persaud

A pensioner was found hanging under a shed at the back of his Cotton Field, Essequibo home early yesterday morning.

Sukhdeo Persaud, 76, self-employed, of Lot 95 Cotton Field Back Street was found by his 39-year-old son, Neel Khant Persaud hanging from a short piece of sling under a shed aback their home.

According to the man’s wife, Persaud had always threatened to take his life.

“He use to always say that he disgust live and why God can’t take his life and that he gon kill he self,” the wife said. She told this newspaper