EVAN DOWNES was the perfect gentleman. Those who knew the 74-year-old from Union Drive, St Philip, who died while swimming off Enterprise Beach, Christ Church, during the Oistins Fish Festival described him as “a real peoples person” who always wore a smile.
On Friday afternoon when the SATURDAY SUN canvassed the beach it wasn’t hard to find people who had good things to say about him.
Beach vendor Howard Kirton, who said he knew Downes for more than ten years, explained that he was always willing to help others.
“Every morning we would sit and talk, he was a very nice person,” the coconut sculptor said.
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