He will never lay his eyes on his first grandchild. What should have been one of his greatest New Year gifts will never be his. Peter Yee and three of his children should have left Jamaica on Thursday to visit his granddaughter, which his eldest child bore him.

Peter Yee's family is now only left with the memories of a man who cared for everyone. The mystery of his death is even harder for the family to deal with, as they might never be certain of how it actually occurred.

"There are only speculations, nobody knows what happened," said Andrea Yee, widow of the deceased.

Mr. Yee died after he was pinned between a truck and a wrecker after the truck allegedly rolled back on him while he worked outside. After the incident, his two-year-old son who was left in the truck was later found coming from under the wrecker covered in dirt, Mrs. Yee told The STAR as she repeated what she heard from another person who was present when the accident occurred.

Efforts to start the truck after the incident to remove Mr. Yee's body were unsuccessful, which Mrs. Yee believes is proof that the child did not start the truck as is being speculated.

The Constabulary Communications Network (CCN) had earlier reported that the 46-year-old businessman died after the child managed to switch on the ignition which caused the Leyland truck to roll back and pin Mr. Yee between that truck and a parked Volvo truck. He sustained injuries and was taken to the Linstead Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Fondly remembered

While Mr. Yee, a haulage contractor, is no longer here for his four children and wife, he is fondly remembered.

"He was a good father, a kind person. He was everything. I don't have words to describe him as a father and husband," said Mrs. Yee, as she described the man she fell in love with nearly 10 years ago. Next March would have been the 10th year of their marriage. "He is a great husband and a family provider."

According to Mrs. Yee, her husband's love for his children was insurmountable. "He cares a lot and loves his children to death and if he's to come back to life, he would do the same thing," she said, while speaking to The STAR at home in Ewarton, St. Catherine.

While she greaves her husband's death, Mrs. Yee said she is hurting more because of the fact that persons are casting blame on the child for his father's death. "It grieves me when people a talk things an' a seh how the pickney a guh live wid himself wen him know seh him kill him daddy," she said.

Mr. Yee had two daughters and two sons, the sons being the eldest and the youngest of his four children. The child in question was very "privileged" as said by his mother. He was everywhere with his father, explaining the reason for him being with his father on the day of his death. "He loves him very much. He carries him everywhere," said Mrs. Yee.

Mr. Yee was not only loved by his family. Elvira Edwards-Harris, who worked with Mr. Yee for almost 10 years, described him as a good man. "He is just nice and good. There is nothing at all you ask and he doesn't do. He has nothing too good not to give to you," she said of the man.

She said he was also not a quarrelsome man. He never failed to offer a greeting to someone when he passed on the road, she said. His death has greatly affected her. "From I hear, it come like mi heart come out. I feel it man," she said.

Another friend recalled that Mr. Yee was a community man who was respected and loved. "He was like an icon in the district," she told The STAR. Mrs. Yee said her husband will be best remembered for as a kind and jovial person