Renowned author, artist and sportsman Tom Caurry was yesterday buried at the Circular Road Cemetery after he was found dead in his bath room at the National Stadium Hostel Brookfields in Freetown.
The sad event took place in room 222 where he was reportedly found dead in his bath room on his knees and it took days to uncover the mysterious death.
Saidu Jalloh the Chief Security Officer at the National Stadium said it took days without seeing the deceased even his Saturday meal was left at the reception for days.
When contacted on phone it rang inside the room.
It was only yesterday morning when cleaners doing their normal routine observed a pungent smell coming out of his room, prompted them to alert the management.
According to the CSO management immediately went in to action by removing some of the louvers at his 222 room window, and on entering the room they discovered his body in his bath room.
He further explained that the police was immediately called upon when they met the deceased body bent on his knees already decomposed, and after some preliminary investigations his corpse was conveyed to the Circular Road Cemetery for burial.
Tom Caurry was a former member of the Tabule Theater and was among the contingent that went to the London International Festival of Theaters (LIFT) in August 1983. He was also Executive Secretary of the International Association of Sierra Leone Artists (INASCA).
He also taught at the American School at Hill Station and was a founding member and radical columnist at the Awoko Newspaper.
“He will be sadly missed” said editor Kelvin Lewis. May his Soul Rest in Peace.
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