Elderly man found dead in his home

An autopsy today is expected to determine whether or not 65-year-old Godfrey Jacobs, who was found dead in his Green Hill home on Sunday, was murdered.

After the discovery of the body, social media started buzzing, with persons saying that the elderly man had been stabbed to death.{{more}}

But, according to Jacobs’ nephew Randy Thorne, his uncle seems to have died, not at somebody’s hands, but from some sort of medical condition.

The body of the deceased was discovered by family members on Sunday, after Jacobs’ friends found it strange that he had not attended a funeral on Saturday. His body was eventually discovered on a chair in his kitchen.

“He liked funerals, so when he did not go to a funeral on Saturday, his friends who he usually hang out with found it strange and nobody was seeing him,” said Thorne, speaking to the SEARCHLIGHT on Monday.

Thorne, who described his uncle as a “fun and very nice person,” said that when persons became concerned, family members decided to check the house and discovered Jacobs, who lived alone, dead in his kitchen.

The bereaved nephew said that when he happened upon his uncle’s corpse, he noticed blood at the man’s feet, a mark next to his eye and marks on his chest, which from his initial observation, seemed to indicate that Jacobs had been roughed up.

“…but after I looked good, it don’t seem like there was no struggle and everything is there. No footprints or any signs of anything missing, so I don’t think anyone killed him,” said Thorne, who noted also that the police have been very helpful.

Thorne said that his uncle, who was a farmer and tailor, would have been 66 on December 7 this year.

“I don’t think nobody murder him; the autopsy is today, so by today we will know exactly what he died from,” said Thorne.

If Jacobs was, in fact, murdered, his demise would be the 17th violent death this year, a number some persons find alarming, as it relates to St Vincent and the Grenadines.(LC)