Glen resident died as a result of hanging – autopsy

An autopsy carried out on Bentley Errol ‘Speeder’ Chambers of Glen revealed that the 67-year-old father of three died from hanging.

The autopsy was done on Tuesday.

Chambers was found on Sunday morning June 19 at around 5.30, wearing a red shirt and green pants and hanging from the roof of a tent that was erected on the Calliaqua Playing Field.{{more}}

The tent had a platform set up under it and Chambers’ hands and lower torso were touching the platform, while his feet were barely off the ground.

The position in which his body was found led his family to entertain the idea that Chambers did not commit suicide.

He is the second elderly man to be found hanging in the last five weeks, as on May 13, Arnos Durrant, a 66-year-old farmer of Lowmans Windward, was found hanging from a tree in a plot of land he farmed. Durrant’s death has been ruled a suicide and police are said to have also ruled Chambers’ passing a suicide.(LC)