Police in Spanish Town, St Catherine, have launched an investigation following the death of a man who was found critically injured in a gully and later died in hospital.

Dead is 36-year-old labourer Orane Goldbourne of Tawes Pen, Spanish Town.

Reports are that about 4 a.m. on May 16, passers-by stumbled upon Goldbourne in a gully in the area with what appeared to be a wound to the back of his head.