Family of missing man identify body in morgue

Twenty-nine year-old Patrick Williams, popularly known as ‘Boysie’ of a Wellside Lane, Church Pen address, disappeared on the night of January 11, 2019 after informing relatives he was going to the shop. But he never returned.

Some 48 hours after his disappearance his relatives filed a missing person report at the Old Harbour Police Station.

Approximately four weeks since his disappearance and after exhaustive searches throughout the town and parish for Williams, the family received a call from the Old Harbour police on February 8.

They were informed of a possible location, but this time it was a morgue in Spanish Town. Checks made at the morgue confirmed it to be the body of Williams.

An autopsy carried out on February 12 was inconclusive, a family member of the deceased told Old Harbour News. This has caused many to speculate with theories of possible induced poisoning or a sudden stroke – perhaps caused by a popular concoction of mixing high-energy drink and rum and smoking marijuana – being mooted.

But how did Williams, who is known for having sporadic flare-ups of mental disorientation since his mother’s death in 2005, die?

He hasn’t had a mental trigger in almost a year, his brother, Horace Williams, told Old Harbour News, and was quite fine on the night he disappeared.

“He’s not the kind of person who will go eat out of the garbage or pick up things off the ground. We know that for sure. So if its poison it hard fi mi si him tek any poison,” he said.

The police are not sure themselves, except to say that on the night Williams disappeared, his body was discovered on a sidewalk along West Street, Old Harbour at about 11:20 pm. The body had no signs of any mark or wounds either, the police report stated.

To complicate matters, somewhat, the officer handling the case went on a special assignment, Old Harbour News has been reliably informed. And it was only when that officer returned, the investigation apparently was picked up again despite the family circulating images of Williams at the station and elsewhere.

This did not sit well with Williams’ family members.

“He was missing on the 11th January and we made a report at the Old Harbour Police Station on the 14th January. We have been going to the station almost every day and all the police there had to do was to check the log book and go back to the 11th January in the log book and they would have realized that a man was found dead in the town but he was not identified. If the police who have the case never come back all now we would be still searching for him,” one relative lamented.

Old Harbour News has been told that tissue samples of the deceased have been sent to a medical laboratory for further testing with the hope that the coroner is able to determine the cause of death.

His family members are still at a loss, though. Despite some level of closure in finding him, albeit he is now dead, there are plenty more unanswered questions as to how, why and perhaps who, could have caused the death of their beloved ‘Boysie’.

His siblings described their brother as “a very nice person” who will never ever try to harm anyone even when he’s having bouts of mental psychosis."