Police have opened an inquest docket after a BA degree final-year student from East London was found dead in his off-campus flat in Grahamstown last night, 23 October.
Police have opened an inquest docket after a BA degree final-year student from East London was found dead in his off-campus flat in Grahamstown last night, 23 October.
Grahamstown Police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender said the man’s friends discovered him unconscious in his flat.
Govender said they had become worried when he did not answer his phone.
“Around 6.15pm his friends went to his place and saw his car parked outside. But his door was locked and there was no answer,” Govender told Grocott’s Mail in a telephonic interview today.
Govender said the man’s friends asked the landlord to unlock the door. They found him unconscious in his bathroom.
“He is from East London and was doing his fourth year at Rhodes University,” Govender said.
The student is believed to be in his mid-20s.
In a media statement issued this afternoon, the university said Vice-Chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela and the Acting Director of Student Affairs, Dr Colleen Vassiliou were at the scene last night.
Senior University officials have been in contact with the man’s parents, who arrived in Grahamstown this morning, Vassiliou said in the statement.
Govender confirmed the parents had identified their son’s body and that an inquest is under way.
