Dalton Laing, Gleaner Writer

Wellesley Grant

SAV-LA-MAR, Westmoreland:

The body of a 52-year-old man was found hanging from rope in a dilapidated two-room house at Sterling in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, yesterday.

The police are treating the death of Wellesley Grant, labourer on a nearby farm, as suicide.

According to police reports, about 12:30 p.m., a small girl was passing the house and saw, through large cracks in the side boards, Grant's body hanging from the ceiling. The Morgan's Bridge police were then alerted.

Family members are distraught over the case of suspected suicide.

"We feel bad over the situation," said sister-in-law of the deceased man, Letilda Grant. "We never expect this from Dadda Coo."

But it was apparent that Grant had hinted at plans to end his life.

"Yesterday him say he was going to kill himself," said his older brother, Milton Grant, who lives next door. "Him say some children a bother him and provoke him and he was going to kill himself."

Other residents of Sterling claim he was asking for rope the night before, threatening to kill himself.

There are no indications whether Grant's alcoholism was related to the incident.

The house in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, where Wellesley Grant was found hanging. - Photos by Dalton Laing