A Manchester family has been left in mourning after a 21-year-old man was said to have committed suicide because his tattoos were making him uncomfortable.

He has been identified as Junior Lennon, a graduate of the Bellefield High School.

The incident reportedly occurred in Knockpatrick, Manchester, about 4 p.m.

THE STAR understands that yesterday evening the mechanic told his father that the tattoos on his hands were causing him to itch and he was having hot flashes.

It is further reported that his father then left the home to get money for his son to remove the tattoos. However, it is reported that when his sister came home from school she saw her brother hanging from the ceiling.

THE STAR understands that up to 7 p.m., yesterday evening the body of the man was not removed from the home.

heat inna him

"From di other day he has been complaining that his skin a itch him and dat him have this heat inna him body," a resident of the community said.

The source further said: "So his father who is a taxi-man tell him dat him must not worry himself he is going to get some money and come back but by his sister come home from school she saw him hanging from a piece of electrical cord from the ceiling," a resident from the community said.

According to one of Lennon's neighbours, "Him put on some of the tattoos from last year but recently him put on another star tattoo, it look like a deh one deh did a give him hell. He even had to go to the doctor for it and he had to leave his job because the itching and burning did unbearable. But he was a quiet youth. Nobody never really expected this."

Up to press time last night the police could not confirm a report of a second case of suicide involving a 74-year-old man.

THE STAR understands that the man who was residing in the Downs community on the border of St Elizabeth and Manchester was a cancer patient.