TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE DUE TO TURN UP AT THE FUNE
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE DUE TO TURN UP AT THE FUNERAL OF
A POPULAR BRIXTON PENSIONER AND PUB CHARACTER, AN INQUEST HEARD
TODAY FRIDAY.
DONALD HUDSON LEEHIN CAME TO BRITAIN FROM JAMAICA MANY YEARS
AGO.
HE HAD NO RELATIVES BUT WAS AN EXTREMELY POPULAR CHARACTER
IN BRIXTON, SOUTHWARK CORONERS COURT WAS TOLD.
THE BODY OF LEEHIN, 73, WAS FOUND WHEN POLICE BROKE INTO HIS
LOUGHBOROUGH PARK FLAT, THREE DAYS AFTER HE WAS LAST SEEN BY
NEIGHBOURS.
AN OPEN VERDICT WAS RECORDED BY CORONER SIR BERNARD MONTAGUE
LEVINE.
PATHOLOGIST DR CHARLES NAYLOR SAID THE BODY HAD DECOMPOSED
TOO MUCH TO ASCERTAIN THE CAUSE OF DEATH.
FRIEND MISS THERESA BOUNDS HAD CALLED IN THE POLICE AFTER
NOTICING A HORRIBLE SMELL COMING FROM THE GROUND FLOOR COUNCIL FLAT.
PC EDWARD SIMPSON BASED AT BRIXTON TOLD THE COURT THAT
ALTHOUGH MR LEEHIN HAD NO RELATIVES HE WAS ‘EXTREMELY POPULAR’ IN
BRIXTON WHERE HE HAD CLEARED GLASSES IN VARIOUS PUBS.
OVER 200 PEOPLE HAD ASKED TO ATTEND HIS FUNERAL, PC SIMPSON
SAID.
SIR MONTAGUE LEVINE SAID: ‘THIS MAN LIVED ON HIS OWN BUT WAS
EXTREMELY POPULAR AND WELL KNOWN.
HE WAS NOT A RECLUSE.
THERE IS
NOTHING TO INDICATE THAT THERE HAS BEEN ANY FOUL PLAY.
‘
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