LLANDILO, Westmoreland — The discovery of a medical doctor’s body with stab wounds at his home in the normally quiet Llandilo Phase 1 housing scheme has left residents shocked and puzzled, given their knowledge of him as an introvert.

Fifty-seven-year-old Dr Aung Naing was found naked in his house Sunday afternoon with stab wounds to the chest and neck.

A highly placed police source told the Jamaica Observer that there was a lot of blood in the house and the constabulary has theorised that this could be a crime of passion, as the house was locked up.

A driver living in the community for the past 30 years, who gave his name as Radcliffe Harris, said he knew the doctor and was saddened by the news of his death.

“It is so very sad right now to hear this story here [and] to know that it is a man who takes care of me. Because right now I know if I go to the doctor I will have to pay; with this man I don’t have to pay any money. Any problem, you can call him and he will talk,” said Harris.

He said Dr Naing was married and had a son with his wife, but she does not live in the parish.

“I know she usually comes down every end of month and carries her son, but the son get big. I know that he is studying to be a doctor,” Harris said.

Dr Naing, who is from Myanmar, had been living in Jamaica since 1997. He first started working at Kingston Public Hospital before moving to Savanna-la-Mar Public General Hospital in Westmoreland. However, he was transferred to Noel Holmes Hospital in Hanover after what was said to have been a misunderstanding between himself and a patient. He later worked at a private doctor’s office in Savanna-la-Mar. However, the
Observer was told that he was not working there at the time of his death.

“He is a man that I am showing you seh feisty, he has no behaviour in a way, but he doesn’t really keep friends,” stated Harris.

Harris said the doctor’s Toyota Axio motor car was not at home when his body was found.

A neighbour, Devon Robinson, who said he last saw Dr Naing two weeks ago, told the
Observer that nothing looked unusual at the house from the outside.

He said Dr Naing lived alone and would be inside the house without anyone knowing.

According to Robinson, on Sunday a man on his way to a neighbour’s house raised an alarm after seeing a swarm of flies at a window and vultures, known to Jamaicans as John Crows, circling the area.

The police were called, after which firefighters were summoned to remove the locks to the house.

“I feel a way to know seh you are here so and somebody next door to you dead and you never know or hear anything. People who live nearby never know either. So, you are going to feel a way because it could be you same way. Simple like that,” stated Robinson.

Meanwhile, the police source said they are following leads and “looking at different angles, checking with family members to find out if he had other persons visiting”.