Memorial service to be held for 3 missing at sea

Tonight, we regret to report that the search for three people missing at sea since December twenty-seventh has officially been called off. On Wednesday, a memorial service will be held for British national Ian Jackson, Charles Moody, and Moody’s eleven-year-old son, Shane. The two men were both working for contractor Johnston International. The trio left Belize City around five p.m. on that stormy Friday bound for the company’s dredge moored just off the southern tip of the Turneffe islands. They were never seen again. In the days immediately following their disappearance, search parties recovered parts of their fifty-foot aluminium hulled vessel, the Demonstrator, on nearby cayes but there was no sign of her passengers. It is now believed that as the captain navigated the boat across the blue in worsening weather, it capsized, with Jackson and the Moody’s trapped inside. News 5 understands that attempts are still being made to hire special equipment to locate the Demonstrator, wherever she may have come to rest on the sea bottom. The memorial service is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday at St. Joseph’s Church in Belize City.