Octavius - RIP

Remember Octavius with the interesting bowel blockage? I last heard from him on 13th April, when he told me he was about to have an operation to have the diamond removed. Today I heard from a Liberian friend of his, who lived with him at the UNHCR refugee camp at Ouida, outside Cotonou, who said Octavius had died during the operation. The whereabouts of the diamond remains unknown - perhaps it has been buried with him, or perhaps the surgeon stole it. What a terrible and needless waste of life, which only came about because of his own greed. Thus dies one more victim of Liberia's war. Olly