Man dies after falling from coconut tree

A man died yesterday after he fell from a coconut tree on Lamaha Street, Newtown, Kitty and lay there for more than an hour waiting for an ambulance.

Rueben Cumberbatch, 51, of Wismar, Linden, fell from a coconut tree in his cousin’s backyard around 4.30 pm. According to his cousin, who asked not to be named, Cumberbatch was warned not to climb the tree but he insisted on doing so. He had explained that he had been given money by another cousin to buy a bag of coconuts.

The man said Cumberbatch told him that he had spent the money and therefore needed to pick the