British national John Gordthrop died at 70 at his house at Coastal Road, his girlfriend has said.
Gordthrop who was on vacation in The Gambia died on Sunday.
His girlfriend’s sister told The Fatu Network John had been stranded in The Gambia since missing his flight at the start of the coronavirus crisis.
“He got sick on Saturday but told my sister (girlfriend) he don’t want her to take him to the hospital because they would say he has coronavirus,” John’s girlfriend’s sister said.
She added: “She found her dead on Sunday morning in the house. They went to Jammeh Foundation where the doctors referred them to Kanifing Hospital where doctors their also said he was dead and they should take him to Banjul.
“When they got to Banjul, they also said they would not touch him. They then went to the police who prepared a report. We joined them at the police where we found him laying lifeless without a shirt. They didn’t cover him with anything. I then bought a cloth and covered him.
“When we got to the dead house, everyone was running away. It was us who carried him and put him inside the mortuary.
“They said they will now conduct a postmortem and the guy that helped us get him admitted at the morgue said a coronavirus test had been carried out on him but the report is yet to be out.
“Now they are asking us to take him back. We are women. What are we going to do with the corpse?”
