UPDATE: Sister upset 'Noel' was given ‘weed’ to smoke
Chinnery, 30, was subsequently pronounced dead by a doctor after the body was brought to Tortola aboard the Royal Virgin Islands Police boat. The body of the unemployed youth was discovered by a family member around 5 A.M. in the yard of their home in Great Harbour.
Speaking exclusively to Virgin Islands News Online, Ms Chinnery said her brother had some mental issues as well as drug addiction issues and had even spent some seven years at the Sandy Lane Centre on Tortola.
“He was back and forth, back and forth. It was like when he come out he is good until he start going back smoking weed. When he smoked cigarettes he had no problem, but he used to smoke a lot of cigarettes, I used to quarrel him for that.”
With tears streaming down her face, Ms Chinnery recalled that her brother had approached her on Saturday April 20, 2013 for three dollars but she didn’t give him since she only had $20. “So he said to give it to him but I said no I am not going to give you the 20 dollars because sometimes when you give him big money he goes out and buy weed. And these guys around here know he not supposed to be smoking and they give him weed to smoke.”
The family of Noel Chinnery is also upset over reports that Noel had allegedly told persons that he was going to commit suicide.
“And then he go out there and he telling people that he fed up of living and that he going to kill himself. And we didn’t know that he told people that until he died. Nobody ever came to us and said anything.”
Obviously still in deep mourning over the death of her brother, Ms Chinnery is even telling herself that if she was at home on that fateful night Noel would have been alive today.
The sister also related that one of her brothers was at home on the said night of the alleged suicide and had noticed Noel sitting outside of the house smoking a cigarette but didn’t suspect he was up to something. “He was just sitting there like he normally does. By the time he [brother] go upstairs and come back down he had done do it already.”
The tree on which Noel was found hanging has since been cut down.
Meanwhile, Ms Chinnery is also hoping that Government would do more for mentally unstable and persons suffering from drug addiction or substance abuse on Jost Van Dyke.
“There are also two persons on the island that have the same issues like my brother and I think we could just go to the government to send them into rehab.”
See previous story posted on April 21, 2013
UPDATE: Noel Chinnery identified as man found hanging from tree on JVD!
This news site can confirm that the man found near his home in Great Habour, Jost Van Dyke, hanging by a rope in a tree this morning April, 21, 2013 is 30-year-old Noel Chinnery.
Chinnery was pronounced dead moments ago by a doctor after the body was brought to Tortola aboard the Royal Virgin Islands Police boat.
While no autopsy has been performed, there are early reports alleging that his death was self inflicted.
The body of the reportedly unemployed youth was discovered by a family member around 5 A.M.
See previous story posted on April 21, 2013
JVD man found hanging from tree in alleged suicide
Virgin Islands News Online's team of reporters in Jost Van Dyke has confirmed that a 30 year old Jost Van Dyke man was discovered hanging from a tree, close to where he lived, around 5 A.M. today April 21, 2013.
Police and medical staff are currently on the scene of what appears to be a suicide. While this news site has the name of the deceased, we have decided to withhold it at this time, along with images from the scene.
Virgin Islands News Online will provide more details to this story later.
The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online express our sympathy to the family of the deceased.
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46 Responses to “UPDATE: Sister upset 'Noel' was given ‘weed’ to smoke”
You will be the same person who tells me that a murderer can be forgiven.
Can a woman who had an abortion be forgiven? (Murder)
Did Moses do great things for God AFTER he murdered the Egyptian?
Please tell me what FACTS that you base your opinion on.
Suicide: murder of your own self
why they going to hell? Because they can no longer ask for forgiveness, they are dead. the murderer of another person still lives and can cry out to god who is always merciful...you cannot cry out after death nor can you ask forgiveness for what you are about to do. that is wilful sin and that definitely is not forgiven.
This is not a judgment post. to each his own and sorry the family had to go thru that. Only clarification.
I see nothing in your post but a little bit of testimony (I grew up as a Christian) and an opinion with no Bible facts (Scripture) to support it.
Please define "willful sin" and tell us all the difference between Sin and willful sin.
All that you have stated in your post is what you have traditionally been taught.
Please back up your opinions by showing us the chapter and verse that agrees with your submission.
SSK mind ur own d@#% business and pray for the family members who hurting, what u want details for, he was sick, people enabled him, he ended up making a poor choice, he did the unthinkable, simple, but sad. Just mind ur business! People like u really nead 'details' on how to be empathetic!
those reasons are respectable, even if hard to accept by others. This world is not exactly the most kind or
fair, and many times it becomes unbearable to many people who are suffering. to invoke or demand
intervention by the so-called mental health profession which is itself a bunch of carpetbaggers and leaches
who attach to peoples' pain and suffering - is not respectable to any one. NO ONE is 'mentally ill' because
they disagree with the so-called majority where they live, or have differences of behaviour or standards.
some of this worlds finest souls have had to end their lives because of how it is here. If nothing else, don't
call people mentally ill just because they don't want to be here anymore. Anyone who understands human
history should understand this. Show some respect instead of lineing psychiatrists pockets. Use your
common sense in seeing these tragedies. God Bless.....anynymous.....
So somebody's been misled. Not saying that everyone can handle weed as mentally unstable people definitely shouldn't smoke anything at all but it doesn't sound like "Weed"
Condolences to the family hopefully they get all the answers & the truth as well. SAD