The Port Antonio police in portland are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of an inmate whose body was found hanging by a piece of cloth in his cell at the lock-up on Wednesday.

Dead is Lincoln Samuels, 38, of Fairy Hill, Port Antonio.

Reports are that at 3:30 p.m. during a routine check, the police found Samuels' body suspended by a piece of cloth from a ventilation grill in his cell, which he shares with two other inmates.

The body was subsequently removed to the morgue for post mortem.

Police say Samuels, who was on a rape charge, was offered $150,000 bail in the Buff Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on May 28. His next court date was to have been July 21.