14 year old drowns in pond
A young man is dead after drowning in a pond eight miles outside of Belize City. According to thirty nine year old Patrick Garbutt of Belize City, he along with family members accompanied by their neighbor’s son, fourteen year old Lionel Anthony Peyrefitte went swimming in a pond, near mile eight on the Western highway. Garbutt says while they were swimming, Peyrefitte suddenly disappeared under the water. The police were called out to the site and about one hour later, Peyrefitte’s body was retrieved. It now lies in the K.H.M.H. morgue where it awaits a postmortem examination.
