A 19-year-old Enmore resident, Rameshwar Sawh, was yesterday found hanging in the Enmore lockups.
Reports are that at around 15:00 hours, Sawh’s lifeless body was found hanging from the ceiling in the lockups. His T-shirt had been torn to fashion a rope.
Kaieteur News understands that Sawh, of Logwood, Enmore, was detained by police some time yesterday, following the theft of a car battery in the community.
A resident who asked not to be identified said that at around 15:00 hours yesterday her cousin was also detained by police and was being escorted to the lockups. She said that it was only then the discovery was made.
“Dem de carrying me cousin in de lockups and while he going in, he turn back and tell dem (the police) that he ain't going because ah man deh hanging in deh (the lockups),” the resident said.
This newspaper was told that having being told this, a police rank decided to check only to find Sawh, also called “Kenny”, with his T-shirt around his neck hanging from the ceiling.
Immediately, the other man who was being taken into the lockups was released as police turned their attention to the body. Sawh’s body was cut down and taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival by a doctor.  
Over at his parents’ house, neighbours converged to offer their condolences after news of the incident got around.
The grieving mother, Indrouttie Sawh, said that she last saw her son early yesterday morning, after he left to seek employment at the Enmore Estate. “This morning early he come and ask fuh he birth certificate and he tell me he going at de estate fuh look wuk,” the woman recalled.
She added that she received the message of his death through a friend. “Is a boy who wukking opposite the police station come and tell me that ‘Kenny’ dead…mi din even know that he went in de lockups. When me call de station, all dem tell me is that he dead,” she added.
The woman said that after receiving the news that her son had hanged himself, then she was told by other villagers that he was picked up by police for questioning about a battery that was missing from a car.
“Everything that go wrong in de village dem does come and hold me son, anything! One morning in December dem come fuh he and had he lock up fuh five days and all dem seh is that he thief something but dem never find anything on he,” the woman said amidst tears.  
Residents told this newspaper that Sawh was seen earlier in the day around a car which had been parked on the road corner for a number of years and the apparent owner of the car called the police.
“Like he went fuh get de battery from de car fuh mek a  li’l money and a lady holler pon he and he just left de battery and run away…Is a lady call de police and dem pick he up, but he ain’t tek no battery,” a resident said.
Residents claimed that after news circulated that Sawh had hanged himself, police were seen removing a battery from the said car.
Some three hours after the incident, the police had not yet visited the home to formally inform the dead man’s relatives of the hanging.
However, after being advised that Sawh’s body was at the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary, the dead man’s father decided to go identify his son. He was prevented from doing so as he was told that police had ordered that no one view the body.
The body has since been taken to the Lyken Funeral Parlour. 
Grieving relatives said after several enquiries at the Enmore Police Station, they were only told by police that Rameshwar had died.
Relatives claim that the police gave no other information to them. Investigations are ongoing as a post mortem is expected to be performed soon.