AfriKa CRY BLOOD

I’AKOBI MALONEY was yesterday described as very creative, intelligent and someone who was not impulsive.

Best friends Ayesha Delpeche and Renaldo Depeiza both gave evidence at the Coroner’s inquest into the tragic death of the young man.

Delpeche said she had known Maloney for about six years. She said that while he never expressed any concerns about his work to her she was not surprised to learn that he had resigned from his job.

“He was a very creative individual. I know he was interested in exploring creative things and he use to go around people who were poets and musicians”, she stated. (more…)

by Barbados Advocate

WHEN a forensic pathologist performed a post mortem on the body of 23-year-old engineer I’Akobi Tacuma Maloney, among other things, his lungs were inflated.

That was te evidence of Dr. Carl Winskog of the Government Forensic Sciences Centre at the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Maloney, formerly of Reed Street, City.

The forensic pathologist said that on June 20, 2008 when he performed the post mortem, he also found blunt trauma to the head, multiple lacerations to the head, arms and legs, and a laceration to the liver. He attributed the cause of death to drowning. (more…)