Body on rooftop has police puzzled

Tonight police are hoping that a post mortem examination will help them discover exactly what caused the demise of a Belize City man. While foul play is not apparent, the location of the body indicates that this was not your everyday death by natural causes.

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting

This evening Belize City police had the task of climbing a ladder to investigate a disturbing report that a dead man was seen on the roof of a building. Lying face down on top of the zinc was the nude body of forty-five year old Clive Lord of number thirty-seven Euphrates Avenue. The gruesome discovery was first made by neighbours, who happened to look out their window and saw the body partially covered with a plastic sheet.

According to the dead man’s family, Lord had mental problems and had taken up residence on their rooftop. They do not know when he may have died and believe his death was due to illness.

Rupert Courtney, Brother

“Well, I feel that dah weh he travel with the asthma, eh usually like stay outdoors. He noh like really be weh too much heat and thing deh, so actually weh he usually sleep dah pan the housetop. He come up dah evening, come down dah mawning goh dah the market, hustle what he hustle, come back and go right upstairs back, noh talk to nobody. So we noh actually know what dah the problem with ah, the only thing weh he know with ah, he travel with asthma.”

“Well just this evening they actually find ah up deh noh. The neighbours and soh like weh work upstairs at the boutique seh that how they see the body upstairs and they mi the try stone the body to see if he really actually dead or living, cause they see he did noh move and thing.”

Rupert Courtney says the last time he saw his brother alive was last week, but authorities believe that judging from the state of decomposition, Lord likely died in the early hours of this morning. Jacqueline Woods for News 5.

It is believed that the post mortem will be performed Tuesday morning.