GUYANESE
footballer Marlon Hendricks, who
was found dead at Wotton, Christ
Church, in Barbados,last
Wednesday, a day
after arriving on the island, had
nine bags of cocaine in his
stomach, according to a report in
the Barbados Nation.
A
post mortem carried out on the
body of the 29-year-old Hendricks,
who played football for Camptown
Club in Guyana, revealed that he
died from cardiac failure as a
result of one of the bags
bursting.
Hendricks
arrived in Barbados last Tuesday
and was staying at a guest-house
at Kingsland, Christ Church.
On Wednesday he reported that he
was not feeling well and was taken
to a private doctor. The doctor
summoned an ambulance to take him
to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
On
arrival at the hospital, Hendricks
fled before receiving medical
attention. Hours later his body
was found on the lawn of a house
at Wotton.
Police
said on Saturday that Hendricks
was accustomed to making trips to
Barbados and this time he had gone
there from St Lucia.
"We
suspect he was an international
drug mule", a police source
stated.
He said two tubes of cocaine were
discovered in the refrigerator at
the apartment where he was
staying, as well as two bottles of
a laxative, two cartons of milk,
and an empty snack box.
The
police source's opinion was that
Hendricks may have eaten, and that
made it difficult for him to
excrete the bags of cocaine.
It is understood that his sister
arrived in Barbados on Thursday
morning.
Monday,
October 24, 2005