When Timothy Leroy Daniel left home around 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 15, his common law wife, Marva Green, patiently waited for him to return. He never did.
On Monday, Green heard her daughter, Sofia, calling out at the gate of her home in Suttle Street, The City. Thinking she had brought Daniel home, her joy was shattered when she was told his body had been found along the ABC Highway.
Earlier that day, C.O. Williams Construction workers stumbled across the decomposed body in a bushy area around 9:40 a.m. while debushing the Cummins section of the highway at Hinds Hill, St Michael.
Police later revealed that Daniel’s national identification card was found on the body.
Timothy Leroy Daniel (GP)
“I had feel real hurt,” Green told the MIDWEEK NATION last night at District “A” Police Station, Station Hill, St Michael. “When my daughter told me, I broke into tears.
“I will miss him dearly because he used to keep me real good company and anything I wanted, he would get or do for me.
“He was an honest man and that is what drew me to him. If I left money or anything lying around the house, he would never take it up from me.”
Green, 71, was living with Daniel, 70, a former worker of the drainage department, for over 20 years in Suttle Street. She said Daniel was a quiet man but when she first met him, “he used to give me a lot of talk yuh know”.
She said he was a heavy drinker and drank in spite of his doctor’s warnings. Sometimes he would be so intoxicated, he would leave home for hours, but always found his way back, she added.
Green said he had a history of collapsing and attributed that to his drinking.
“[That] Saturday he was humbugging me all the time saying, ‘I want my shirt’ but I didn’t pay him any mind at all. So he went in the bedroom and he like he find the shirt, and from there he did gone.”
Her daughter Sofia said: “I saw him last, it seems. I saw him walking coming down Waterford Bottom that evening around 5 and he was barefoot.”
When a NATION team visited Daniel’s former place of residence in Sion Hill, St Patrick’s, Christ Church, his brother Hasley Stuart, nephew Ryan Daniel and cousin Harriott King were not aware he had passed away.
They said they had last seen him in August at a relative’s funeral at St Patrick’s Anglican Church.
“Right now I am so shocked,” said Ryan. “I read the story about the decomposed body in the paper when I got home from work, but I had no idea it was him.
“But why would he be on the highway? That is the thing that got me. He had liked Town real bad and the area he frequented was Fairchild Street.”
Stuart said Daniel left Christ Church when he was 16 or 17 to live in Bridgetown. He said his brother worked at the Plaza Theatre in Probyn Street and would sneak him in to watch kung fu movies for free.
King said his cousin liked cricket “bad bad” and would argue “hard” about the game. (SB)
