Orange Walk’s Abel Robinson murdered

Abel Robinson

In the north, another missing man was found murdered. Days after he disappeared, a search party on Monday discovered the body of twenty-one year old Abel Robinson from Orange Walk Town. The badly decomposed body was lying under a tree off a picado road in the Palmar area. Abel left home on Friday and when he did not come back, the family sensed that something was wrong. It is likely he was murdered soon after he left home because of the state of decomposition. News Five’s Delahnie Bain reports.

Delahnie Bain, Reporting

The family of twenty-one year old Abel Robinson is in mourning after his decomposing body was found on Monday afternoon. Abel left his home in Orange Walk on Friday night and his brother, Thomas Robinson, says he was immediately concerned when he didn’t return.

Thomas Robinson, Brother of Murder Victim

“When di man gone missing di Friday I mi know something wrong. I si something mi wrong di Friday when my lee bredda no come home because my lee bredda noh rest so. I tell my friend dat my lee bredda noh di come home, something happen to ah. Saturday morning I wake up, I get wah lee news dat something might happen to my lee bredda. Den Saturday night I yer wah next message pan di street dat dehn shot my lee bredda eena ih head but den I noh know dah who. I mi di trip. Sunday come, dehn seh dehn mi find wah body di Sunday but dehn did neva find no body di Sunday. Got we fool up, feeling like we mi find ah, but we neva find ah.”

After a weekend of speculation, a search party led by Thomas and his older brother, went on a manhunt and found Abel’s body in some bushes in the San Jose Palmar area.

Thomas Robinson

Thomas Robinson

“Di Monday morning when I get up, I gone out deh gone look fi my lee bredda. All eena dehn swamp, all eena sand pit dah back so I deh. But den I get wah vision and di man tell me dah noh deh ih deh. When I tell my cousin dis man deh by ih house and we gone deh I neva want go eena di bush cause wah vibes tell me ih deh right deh. When my bredda dehn gone eena di bush dehn mi find ah. Same way I get di vision di man show me, dah same way we find ah eena di bush. Weh we get is dat dis man get shot in his head and dehn cut his throat. And di way I see it, mi lee bredda mi di fight fi ih life. Ih neva want dead. Ih neva want dead.”

Due to the state of decomposition, Thomas says his brother was quickly buried after the postmortem.

Thomas Robinson

“We bury di man dis morning because di body was decomposed; it was done swell up and thing. So we mi have to wait—ih mi stay back deh ova night sake ah we mi di wait pan di doctor from Belize. So as we done dat back deh we ker ah straight gone bury and we put him in di hole and we bury him dis morning and put ah fi rest.”

And as they grieve, Abel’s brothers are also troubled because they say the police refused to help them over the weekend.

Thomas Robinson

“We gone dah dehn police deh di Saturday and dehn wah tell we bout we wah need strong evidence and thing. Weh we get off ah di streets is real. Weh dehn di get, dehn just di sit down behind wah desk. I noh di talk bout di CIB, I di talk bout dehn one weh deh behind dah desk and di sit down deh and yer weh we di tell ah but dehn noh pay we no mind. Soh me neva worry bout dehn, I gone out deh gone look fi ah and I find ah. Dehn noh find ah, we find ah. Di police neva do di job cause dehn neva gwein eena bush like we mi gwein, dehn noh search like we gone out deh gone search. And we find ah. We noh stop until we find ah and when we find ah we glad we put ah to rest now. Right now ih deh wid di one and only man up deh.”

Thomas says they know who killed Abel, but they don’t plan on seeking revenge. Delahnie Bain for News Five.