Farmer killed after getting entangled in wires

Amoy Maragh is in deep mourning days after the death of her cousin, 37-year-old Vidmir 'Juggist' Lewis, died from injuries sustained in a bizarre accident last Friday.

Lewis perished when he got entangled in fallen utility wires while driving his motorcycle a short distance from his home in Goodwill, St James. Lewis, a father of seven, was a farmer who raised goats and reared dogs for sale.

"The family not taking it well. We were close, me and him. As morning light up, him reach here at my shop, and as evening come, a him that coming here," Maragh told THE STAR. "Three or four times for the day, him will come and check me. If him going to Montego Bay, him would say, 'Come on, we a go a MoBay.'"

According to reports from the police, Lewis was driving his motorcycle along the main road when he got entangled in wires that were hanging from a utility pole along the roadway. Lewis fell off the motorcycle and sustained several injuries, and was subsequently pronounced dead at hospital. Maragh, wearing a mournful look, told THE STAR that Lewis, who enjoyed playing bingo with friends, had come to spend time at her shop moments before his death.

"Me and him did just right here at the shop, and him say him did a go check him friend, because him a call the guy and was not getting him. I said okay, and him say him a go come back and play bingo, and him ride go down the road," Maragh recounted.

"By the time I reach in the bathroom and start bathe, one of my friends called me and told me Vidmir mash up down the road, and that some wires did in the road and hook him, and him did drop off the bike. Them tell me say somebody rush with him go to hospital, but by the time mi fi put on my clothes fi go to Falmouth Hospital, mi get a call and hear say him dead," Maragh continued.