The decomposing body that police removed from an open lot in Havendale, St Andrew, on Thursday morning, has been positively identified as that of 22-year-old Dane Harris of a Portmore, St Catherine, address.

Two men have since been taken into custody in relation to the gruesome find.

Crime chief for the St Andrew North Police, Deputy Superintendent Altemorth Campbell, said residents called the police to the premises in Kingston 19 about 10 a.m. after discovering the body.

The policeman stated that a post-mortem revealed that the body had multiple stab wounds. Both hands were also missing from the body.