Missing pensioner found dead near airport

Hedley Williams

A two-day search for 74-year-old Hedley Williams, who went missing on Sunday, came to a tragic end yesterday when his lifeless body was discovered in a clump of bushes, a short distance away from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, where he was last seen.

Chandra Davie, the dead man’s wife, who returned to Guyana on the same day he went missing, explained that Williams had accompanied other relatives to pick her up at the airport.

She added that while Williams, a diabetic patient, stayed behind, the other relatives came to meet her at the terminal.  However, when they returned to their bus, the pensioner was nowhere to be found.

It was then a search was undertaken for the man. It continued until yesterday when he was found dead.