Body removed from the scene of the crime on Wednesday, April 9.
The identity of a partly decomposed body found in an isolated area in Pigeon Point on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 has been revealed.
Police say he is 22-year-old Jamie Innocent aka Foxx of Morne Du Don.
Innocent’s body was found with his head covered in a sack and his feet bound in an area between the Landings Resort and a feeder road to Gros Islet town.
A woman at the scene had told Saint Lucia News Online (SNO) that she had seen the body of a black slim-built male about 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
She said a blood-stained “white sack or crocus bag like those used to carry sand” covered his head.
“His feet was tied and he had on a black pants, a tie-dye (multi-coloured) shirt which was open,” she said.
The eyewitness further stated that the body had tattoos on “his hands and belly”. He appeared to be in his 30′s.
A police source said the body appeared to have been dead for about two to three days as it was “smelling real bad” with flies everywhere. Another police source confirmed the body had tattoos on its arms and chest, including the name of a place in the United States which has a world-famous prison.
The body was removed from the scene by Rambally’s Funeral Parlour. About a dozen persons including media personnel stood behind the police yellow tape at one end of the crime scene.
It is not clear whether anyone has been arrested in relation to the incident. More details will be posted as soon as it becomes available.