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After losing her mother and sister weeks apart in 2018, the last thing Alliesha Ohere needed was more bad news, especially at Christmas.

But she is now mourning the death of her brother, Christopher Daley, 33, who was one of two men who was buried alive last Thursday, Christmas Eve, after the truck they were travelling in, which was loaded with dirt, overturned. Refuting reports that he was still alive, Ohere said Daley died shortly after the accident, leaving them to grieve on Christmas Day.

"My sister was young and fresh and she just dead suddenly and all now the autopsy pending. My mother took it to heart and get a stroke and died weeks later and now this. How can we get over this? Every Christmas no matter where him (Daley) at, him would find himself home for dinner. But he did not come home for this one," she said.

According to police reports, the accident occurred about 10 a.m. along Spanish Town Road. Ohere said she was at home in Greenwich Farm when she got the news that her brother was involved in an accident and was transported to the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH).

Terrible condition

"I went down by KPH and I spoke with a nurse and I asked her how him look because mi don't know if mi can manage to see him in a terrible condition. She told me that they had put a tube in his throat to help him breathe but his eyes were closed and he was not responding," she said. "She then told me to go and take a seat and the doctor would speak to me shortly but while I was passing I saw a glimpse of him lying down motionless on the bed and mi tell the doctor that I couldn't stay inside. I had to go back out because I just couldn't deal with it."

Overcome with emotions, Ohere returned home, however, she soon received a phone call from a doctor that she should return to the hospital or send a representative. Ohere sent another brother to confirm the bad news that Christopher had died.

"The police also told my brother that he died. The doctors tried everything for him to live but he just didn't make it," she said.

She described Daley as a hard-working and kind-hearted individual who was very big on education.

"So from time to time you would see him telling his nieces and nephews to take up their books. Him will work the money and basically give it away. Him would promise everybody to buy a juice and him pay wasn't nuff and if you follow him, him would give it away before him even reach home," she said.