The coroner’s court has ruled that a double amputee who was found with five dozen packets of cocaine in his stomach, died as a result of misadventure.
According to a police report, presented to the jury, Jill Jarry Ebanks-Dilbert was pronounced dead shortly after 9:40pm on 1 Oct 2018 at the Cayman Islands Hospital.
Police were called to the hospital after test results found that Ebanks-Dilbert, 44, died of acute cocaine toxicity. An X-ray of his stomach revealed several packets of what would later test positive for cocaine.
“During the autopsy, 60 capsules of digested substance wrapped in plastic were recovered from the deceased stomach,” reads the police report.
The discovery of the drugs prompted an investigation which later revealed that Ebanks-Dilbert had returned to Cayman from Honduras some five hours earlier on the same day and was picked up by his wife who took him to their Prospect home.
“He was complaining of feeling unwell, and started vomiting,” reads the police report.
According to medical evidence provided to the jury, Ebanks-Dilbert had both hands amputated as a child after having been electrocuted.
“Several lines of enquiries were made both locally and in Honduras, contact was made with the family of the deceased in Honduras. However, no information as to who might have given the deceased the drugs to transport to [the] Cayman Islands was received,” states the police report.
A unanimous verdict of death by misadventure was returned by the jury.
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