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Missing man found dead in burnt car
March 01, 2021
A double tragedy has struck the community of Montpelier in Sandy Bay, Hanover, after a popular steel worker was discovered burnt to death inside his motor car yesterday, days after his babymother died after giving birth.
Donald Oliver Mullings, 43, otherwise called Gary, was reported missing last Wednesday, three days after 28-year-old Juilett Anderson, otherwise called ' Punchie', died shortly after giving birth to their daughter at the Cornwall Regional Hospital. When THE STAR visited the community yesterday, Kathleen Green, Anderson's mother, said that her daughter and Mullings had been talking for some time.
"During the second week of February, Punchie tek down fi have baby and dem rush har a Cornwall Regional Hospital, but she did have complications so the doctors haffi cut har an tek the baby," she said. Green said doctors advised that they would keep Anderson for a few more days until she was healed.
Everybody shock
"So she call another family member and tell har fi keep the baby until she come out a hospital," said Green. "But everybody shock after wi get news seh mi strong strong daughter tek dung sick. Den di doctors dem seh she critical an dem haffi put har pon life support machine, an' she just dead like that last week Sunday."
The police report that Mullings was reported missing last Wednesday, February 24, and several searches to locate him proved futile. Reports are that about 8:30 a.m. yesterday, a resident stumbled upon a burnt vehicle, with what appeared to be a body on the inside. The police were summoned and upon arrival, the vehicle was identified as the one Mullings was driving when he went missing. His burnt remains were later found in the rear of the vehicle. The scene was processed and the remains removed to the morgue for a post mortem.
"Based on investigations, it is believed he was killed elsewhere, and driven to the location where he, along with the vehicle, was set on fire," one investigator told THE STAR. Ten persons have been murdered in Hanover so far in 2021.
