A MUCH-CRITICISED homosexual love relationship with an East Indian man is what sources say may have led to the gruesome death of 34-year-old Sean Christopher Taylor.

The decomposing battered body of the Diamond Vale, Diego Martin accountant was found last Monday in a teak plantation at Sea View Ridge, Plaisance Park.

When discovered, the bloated corpse of the man who autopsy results later revealed had been beaten and strangled to death, was on its knees, face downwards with hands tied, buttocks half way in the air, and under wear rolled half way down.

At the side of death track, Taylor’s shoes and his pants were discovered and there was also much blood on the trail.

Taylor’s body lay about 60 feet away from where his shoes and clothes were found.

“Certain people didn’t approve the relationship and so there were problems. He was lured to his death,” the source explained.

It was last Friday that the drama that eventually ended in tragedy for the Taylor family began.

The Shell Chemicals Ltd., Pt. Lisas employee reportedly left his workplace, spoke to his parents around 8 p.m., but later the same night his family reportedly received a telephone call saying that their loved one was kidnapped and demanding a $100,000 release for his ransom.

Investigators now suspect that the ransom call was “just a decoy” and that the perpetrators had already bludgeoned him to death.

Some 48 hours after the “kidnap” was reported, Taylor’s car was found abandoned in Cocoyea Village, San Fernando.

The following day two men reportedly hunting manicou in the teak field stumbled upon Taylor’s body and raised an alarm. His mother Annette Taylor positively identified his body by his wristwatch and other distinguishing marks and his dental records.

As officers of the Southern Division Homicide continue investigations, Mirror was told that they are expected to further question the two men who made the discovery since it is felt they may have seen or heard more than they have so far revealed.