BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – POLICE have stated that there was no foul play in the death of Wingrove Morrison Jones, the Nevisian butcher whose lifeless body was discovered on the sidewalk outside Glimbaro’s Guest House on Saturday (Oct. 19).
A police press release stated that on Monday (Oct. 21), Resident Pathologist Dr. Dora Lesbia Marina Magdariaga conducted an autopsy on Jones’ body and reported that “death was due to natural causes (Acute Haemorrhage Pancreatitis)”.
According to livestrong.com, “Acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis is the sudden inflammation of the pancreas. This leads to death of pancreatic tissue and the formation of lesions, causing extensive bleeding.”
The pancreas is a digestive organ behind the stomach that secretes essential enzymes needed for the digestion of certain foods, including fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
This publication had learnt that sometime around 5:00 a.m. on the day in question, passersby had seen the motionless body of the 70-year-old partly lying on a concrete structure on the sidewalk outside Glimbaro’s Guest House with his feet on the ground and his head bracing the wall of the guest house.
According to a police press release, a jogger had discovered Jones’ body on the sidewalk at about 5:50 a.m. and had made a report at the Basseterre Police Station.
The late Wingrove Morrison Jones, alias ‘Punter’, hailed from Fountain Estate in Nevis and was a farmer and butcher, who would have regularly travel to St. Kitts to ply his trade at the Basseterre Market on the Bay Road.
It was also learnt that whilst on St. Kitts, he would normally lodge at Glimbaro’s Guest House on Cayon Street, Basseterre.
