Jamaica News, Clarendon: A Tractor Operator is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself on a premises close to his home in Clarendon on Monday morning, April 23.

He has been identified as 37-year-old Vivian Green of a Palmetto Pen address also in Clarendon.

Reports by the police are that, shortly after 7:15 a.m. on Monday, a relative of the deceased went to his house in search of him, but he was no where to be found.

The relative then discovered a suicide note on the table of the house which indicated that Green intended to take his own life. An alarm was raised and a search launched for him.

Several minutes later, they discovered Green who was hanging from the branch of a guinep tree close to his house, with a piece of electric wire tied around his neck.

The deceased was cut down and transported to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

By Henry Bucknor