The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

POLICE do not suspect that foul play was involved in what they believe might be a suicide based on the discovery of a “badly decomposed body” found hanging from a tree over the weekend.

Superintendent Paul Rolle, head of the Central Detective Unit, told The Tribune that the matter is being investigated as a suicide.

Police said they found the man’s body shortly after 10:30am on Saturday. Police, acting on information, went to a bushy area off Western Road in the Clifton Heritage area where they found the body.

Police have not released the man’s identity, but suspect that he might have been reported missing on May 25. Supt Rolle said police are waiting for his family to positively identify him today before releasing his name.

An autopsy will be held to determine the cause of death, Supt Rolle added.

On Saturday Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said that officers from the Western Police Station, with detectives from CDU, found a car parked in a suspicious manner in the area of the Clifton Heritage site, where the body was found.

“Investigators checking the nearby area discovered a male hanging from a tree with a rope around the neck,” he added. “We are trying to determine exactly what happened here.”

“It’s very early in our investigation, but as we get more information, we’ll make it available to you.”

On March 3, 25-year-old Delano Frantz Dorval of Arden Forrest, Grand Bahama allegedly jumped to his death from the Casa Bahama building, the tallest building on that island.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

A week earlier, on February 23, a man was discovered hanging by a rope in his Coral Harbour apartment in western New Providence.

News of 24-year-old Nathaniel Gibbs’ death shocked area residents, who said that the young man had been living in the apartment off Adelaide Road for less than two months.

Anyone with information into Saturday’s discovery is urged to contact police at 911/919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.