A 26-year-old man is suspected to have committed suicide at the St Ann's Bay Hospital on Wednesday.

The police identified the man as Gayon Jeffery, a labourer of Highgate, St Mary.

The police say minutes to one this morning an alarm was raised by

other patients.

Jeffery's body was reportedly seen tied with a piece of gauze hanging from an electrical outlet inside a bathroom.

The police say the scene was processed and the body removed to the morgue pending a post-mortem examination.