Mt Carey, St James – Police were yesterday fuming at the attitude of a government pathologist who caused the decomposed body of 35 year-old Rohan Morris to be left overnight in the Pye River Cemetery.

According to the Anchovy Police, who are investigating what they believe to be a murder, the government pathologist was notified at 4:20 pm that the body, which was found in a gully, was on its way to the cemetery, located a short distance away in Bogue. The pathologist had been picked up shortly before by the police and taken to the cemetery.

However, by the time the body, transported by the Delapenha Funeral Home, arrived 20 minutes later, the pathologist had already left, having asked the police to take him back home because he could wait no longer.

The police, who waited at the cemetery for almost half-an-hour, said the doctor subsequently informed them that he would return this morning at 9:00 to do the post-mortem and issue the order. The badly decomposed body, which had been partly eaten by animals, was subsequently left at the cemetery late yesterday evening.

“It’s not like him pay him fare to come here,” said investigating officer Detective Corporal Hilton. “And him couldn’t even wait until the body get here.”

The police also had harsh words for Maddens Funeral Home which, they said, refused to pick up the body yesterday morning when they were called in, due to what they said was the need for paperwork to be done by the St James Parish Council, which is closed on weekends. The police subsequently had to call in Delapenha, who had to provide the service for free.

“I don’t understand them,” said one policeman. “It’s as if there is no preparation for when things happen on the weekends.”

Morris, who is said to be from Santa Cruz in St Elizabeth, is believed to have been involved in a love triangle with a woman with whom he allegedly had a visiting relationship.

The woman notified the police yesterday morning after she said she woke up to a foul odour coming from a gully in front of her home. She said she last saw Morris on Tuesday night when he kicked in her door and entered the house in which she was sleeping with the father of her child.

“Him kick down the door and come in,” she told the Sunday Observer. “Him and mi baby father start fight and dem stab up dem one another.”

Her child’s father, she said, sought medical attention and Morris ran off into the bushes. The police yesterday sent a message to the ‘baby father’, who the woman said she had not seen since Wednesday, but up to late yesterday he had not reported to the station.