And finally from the south this weekend, police from Placencia Village, are looking into the death of British tourist Phillip Crabtree, who was found on Friday morning on the peninsula's beach front. Police believe that he drowned, and he was last spotted with a bottle of liquor in his hand.
Assistant Police Commissioner Joseph Myvette told us that there are currently no reasons to suspect foul-play:
ACP Joseph Myvett
"On Friday morning, sometime around 5:45 a.m., Placencia police were called to an area along the seaside where they observed the body of a clear complexioned male person floating in the sea. His body was retrieved from the sea. He was later identified as Phillip Crabtree, a British national. What we know so far is that Mr. Crabtree was socializing in Placencia Village from the evening and sometime after 9p.m., he was in the company of a Belizean socializing when the Belizean left him and he was seen going in the direction of the beach with a bottle of rum. That was the last time he was seen alive. A post mortem has since been conducted on his body this morning where it concluded that he died from asphyxia due to fluid inhalation which is consistent with drowning."
Reporter
"Was there any sign of violence on his body that would suggest…"
ACP Joseph Myvett
"There was none other than I believe a small injury above one of his eyes which may have been consistent with his fall into the water."
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