Victim not our employee: Hotel

Victim not our employee: Hotel

JAKARTA (JP): Management of the five-star Gran Melia Hotel in
South Jakarta denied on Wednesday that the overdosed victim found
dead in front of a kindergarten a day earlier was their employee.

"We have double-checked all the employee and casual help
records we have and found no one under the name of Ferdinand
Edwards," the hotel's public relation's senior officer, Hanum
Yahya, said.

She was referring to a report run by The Jakarta Post on
Tuesday, which quoted a relative of the victim who said that
Ferdinand Edwards had worked at the hotel for one year.

Ferdinand, 20, was found dead from a drug overdose in front of
Pejaten kindergarten in South Jakarta on Tuesday.

His body was immediately claimed by his family and taken to
their hometown of Yogyakarta for burial. (bsr)