Woman Found Dead In Well

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A brother's frantic efforts to find his 75-year-old sister last night ended in tragedy.

Henderson Mottley said last night that he visited his sister, Velma Smith, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, at her No. 24 Durants, Christ Church home.

"I came up my usual time about 6:30 and I would sit down and me and she would sit down and I would finish watch Day of Our Lives wid she. When I first came up I saw the house in darkness, and I was wondering what happened and I said to myself this ain't like her," he recounted.

He said he knocked and called around saying "Sis, sis, sis all the time", but did not hear anything. He then asked one of his sister's close friends if she told her she was going out but she said no.

"I then called [her] cellular phone, I called the house number. I stand up outside on the patio, I called the number and I heard it ring, ring, ring, then it ring off. I said something got to be wrong," he noted.

Mottley said he then checked with a taxi driver who takes her around but he had not seen her either. They returned to her house and together they checked inside the house but their search was in vain.

It was later that Mottley saw "some keys outside" on a wall nearby, he called another man who confirmed what he saw and who noticed that the slab on the well was opened. Police later said there was a body in the well.

The force's Public Relations Officer, Inspector David Welch, told the media in the wee hours of this morning, that Smith was pulled from a 45-foot well in the area by firemen just after midnight.

He said it was about 9:50 p.m. yesterday that family members and friends reported "that she could not be located" to the officers at the Oistins police station.

"Firemen worked tirelessly through the rain to recover the body of Miss Smith," said Welch. Two fire tenders under the command of Divisional Officer Evans Morris, Acting Station Officer Darcy Smith and Acting Station Officer Errol Gaskin attended the incident. (DS)

Source: news.barbadostoday.bb

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