A 31-year-old Mon Repos man succeeded in killing himself yesterday after two attempts when he found out that his young lover had left him for another man.
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Gaisham Sugrim,
31, was discovered by co-workers at a salted fish-processing factory around
midday yesterday.
His twisted body was found in one of the large built-in sinks at the facility,
which is used to wash fish before the salting process.
Sugrim had attempted to end his life on Tuesday night by slashing both wrists
and the Achilles tendon on his right leg.
However the wounds were not deep enough to cause significant damage and he was
taken in by relatives who tried to convince him against such a course of action.
But so devastated was the young man that he left his mother’s house unknown to
anyone and went to his work place where he finally put an end to his life by
strangling himself with a piece of wire – apparently severed after breaking
from an overhead beam.
Workers at the fish processing plant made the shocking discovery when they went
to clean the sinks.
According to sources, Sugrim might not have been discovered so soon had it not
been for the fact that the sink was left uncleaned on Tuesday after the
employees had finished working.
One employee told this newspaper that no one would use that area of the plant
for days and it was only by chance that they had to go there to finish the
cleanup, when they discovered Sugrim after removing a piece of tarpaulin.
A piece of wire was tightly wrapped around his neck and investigators believe
that Sugrim had attempted to hang himself.
According to his sister, Savitree, since Sunday, Sugrim appeared to be
distressed after complaining that the woman he was living with for the past
three years had taken another man.
She said that yesterday after repeated attempts to get the woman to come back
home failed, Sugrim decided he could take it no more and slashed his wrists and
the back of his leg to end his life.
Residents of the community told Kaieteur News that they had expressed sympathy
for the young man when he was alive since he was the victim of what they called
emotional abuse.
They claimed that the woman with whom he lived had several affairs and was very
disrespectful to Sugrim.
Investigators however are still awaiting a post mortem examination report before
closing their case.
Thursday, July 2, 2009