A search party comprising of Police Ranks and relatives recovered the body of Godwin Maxwell around 06:30 h today.
A port mortem examination was performed on the body by Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh who gave the cause of death as asphyxiation due to drowning and blunt trauma to head.
Godwin Maxwell had jumped into the Mahaicony River on Monday August 30, 2010, in efforts to escape from the custody of the police at Mahaicony Police Station after attending court at the Mahaicony Magistrate Court.
Godwin Maxwell, 31, of Calcutta, Mahaicony, was being held in the station after he was placed on bail by Magistrate Haymant Ramdhani on tax evasion charges, when for some strange reason he tried to secure his freedom.
Eyewitnesses stated that Maxwell, who was not placed in the lock-ups while awaiting the posting of the bail by his relatives, ran out of the station and headed towards the old Mahaicony bridge and plunged into the river with a police rank in hot pursuit.
