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To­ba­go’s mur­der toll has climbed to eight for the year af­ter a 44-year-old Amer­i­can builder was found dead in Cas­tara late Wednes­day night.

Po­lice say the body of Christo­pher Brown, a Unit­ed States cit­i­zen who lived at Coun­ty Road, Sil­ver Thorne, was dis­cov­ered around 10.35 pm along De­pot Road.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of an un­re­spon­sive man and found Brown ly­ing near a flight of steps with vis­i­ble in­juries. Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Baksh lat­er viewed the body and of­fi­cial­ly pro­nounced him dead at 3.07 am on Thurs­day.