Autopsy Report Exonerates Lebanese Businessman

The outcome of the autopsy done on the remains of Alie Thullah, a third year student of the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), and a professional technician working for SATCOM, will now put to rest the mystery that earlier on shrouded his death at HBS H. BAYDON & SONS business establishment on Wilberforce Street in Freetown.

Contrary to claims and allegations that Thullah’s death was as a result of an act of murder, the postmortem result reveals ventricular fibrillation due to electrocution, leading to paralysis of the respiratory center and respiratory muscles paralysis.

It should be remembered that in its edition of Thursday, October 3 2024, The Times SL carried a front page story on the death of the IPAM Student at Baydon & Sons, debunking social media lies, and promised to get its wider readership informed as information unfolds on the matter.

Contrary to reports of murder on social media, this medium quoted impeccable sources to have indicated that the relationship between Merhi Baydon and the late Thullah had been very close and cordial, spanning years back, with both rolling out goodwill gestures for each other. That Thullah had been the choice of Baydon in terms of professional technical works until on Monday, when Baydon called on him to fix the problems his satellite dish had incurred.

We further informed our readership how the Business Manager, Merhi Baydon, had tendered the CCTV Camera to the police, with its footages suggesting that Thullah, upon his arrival at the business establishment, was led to the ceilings’ manhole. He climbed through it into the inner roof to do his technical work, while Baydon resettled to his office, confident that he was working to fix the problem as informed. But hours without reporting back to him, he called Thullah on the phone countlessly, but he couldn’t collect the calls, leaving him (Baydon) to think that Thullah had returned home. They, therefore, locked the offices late in the evening and retired home.

On Tuesday morning, however, an Indian national, whose office is close to where the roof’s manhole is located, but who was not in the office the previous day, came in. He got seated and suddenly started to feel a strong foul smell within, leading him to search, search and search. Upon lifting his eyes up to the ceiling, he finally saw Thullah lying in the inner roof, dead.

He immediately dashed out to his boss, Merhi’s office in panic, but he was not in at that time of the morning, prompting an emergency phone call on him.

Merhi arrived with urgency, making way to the place, and wasted no time in calling the police to the scene. He also contacted SATCOM to notify them about the mysterious death of their member of staff, and then contacted the deceased family, who quickly responded.

The remains of Thullah were later conveyed to the Connaught Hospital Mortuary for postmortem examination, which result is now out, making the truth to prevail.