Jim Hodgekinson, a UK native who had lived in Antigua and Barbuda since 2007, has died amid claims of being abandoned at Sir Lester Bird Medical Center. Reports suggest he spent over a week at the hospital, sleeping on chairs outside the emergency room due to alleged problematic behavior. Hodgekinson was described as a loner and a heavy marijuana user.
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Ship his racist remains back to King Charles 😆 🤣
That’s sad that there was no framework in place to deal with a situation like that and that a person died under those circumstances. This should probably be investigated a bit more. Why did he die? Was he eating, drinking during the week? Did he pass away from a particular ailment? Was he just out of control of himself for the whole week?
Yall killed him. What happen to first do no harm. Yall neglected him for over a week.
Shocking to learn via media.
Jim. A Gentleman, a kind soul, lost in a harsh world. The son of a high ranking UK policeman with a high ranking police women sister. He saved many persons in his life including mine and my son. A high functioning intellect with autistic traits, he rejected ‘the system’ but would help anyone he could and defend with his life. His heart was huge, his thought process often at odds with man’s individualistic condition. And so by paradox he became a loner. Unfortunately psychosis was inherent and worsened by the self medication of smoking. Many would have saved him if due diligence was given and the family notified. I have not seen him for years but he was obviously both physically and mentally unwell. We must reflect on how any person, any human being, can be left to die in such circumstances. Jim gave more than most. A staunch defender of the underdog, proud and principled to a fault, the last to ask for help, he did not deserve this demise.
A great and unnecessary loss.
@Smh: Your smelly rass should be shipped back to West Africa.
@SMH: STUPIDITY IS AN EARTHLY GIFT. DID YOU GET MOST OF IT?
ABANDONED…? …MOST UNFORTUNATE: …BETTER OFF DEAD
A most saddening news story.
One may say: ‘…Most Unfortunate.’
It appears more of ‘…DESTITUTION’ and ‘…MALNUTRITION,’ than of ‘…ABANDONMENT’ of ‘…BABIES.’
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PLIGHT AND MISERIES
Given his ‘…PLIGHT and MISERIES,’ well, a man/woman, so positioned, he/she is ‘…BETTER OFF DEAD.’
QUESTION:
ISN’T THAT SO?’
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AND WHY SCREW-UP YOUR DARN FACE?’
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Did Gulliver make any attempts to get in touch with his high-ranking family in Britain, since he seems to have intimate knowledge of this hobo? Will he now take responsibility for his highly esteemed (to him) friend and not leave it to taxpayers to provide special services for this hobo who reportedly abused drugs, refused to conform to societal norms, who might have had untreated mental health issues and who at the end of his miserable life allegedly urinated on patients and verbally abused hospital staff. This “gentleman” according to Gulliver, this “kind soul lost in a harsh world” has now passed to a hopefully less harsh world which does not from what I have read, discriminate based on race, nationality, class or gender. By the way, was he even a legal resident of the State having lived here since 2007? We spend so much time rounding up and deporting “illegal” Caribbean residents many of whom work legitimately and pay taxes here. So that while we foolishly raise rancour about his demise during his last week on earth, may I suggest a comprehensive investigation into the last seventeen (17) years of this highly visible visitor turned vagrant so that we do not beat up ourselves unnecessarily over this inevitable outcome.