Memorial Service for Dylon Set for Sunday

Gingerland –Nevis- A memorial service will be held in honour of Dylon Clarke, on Sunday 28th April, at the Gingerland Seventh day Adventist church, commencing at 4 pm.
The teenager went missing on April 28th 2012, from around 5pm.
It is noted that ‘a person may be legally declared dead in absentia, i.e. a legal presumption of death may be declared, despite the absence of direct proof of the person’s death, such as the finding of remains (e.g., a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person. Such a declaration is typically made when a person has been missing for an extended period of time and in the absence of any evidence that the person is still alive – or after a much shorter period but where the circumstances surrounding a person’s disappearance overwhelmingly support the belief that the person has died (e.g., an airplane crash).
People who disappear are typically called missing, or sometimes absent. Several criteria are evaluated to determine whether a person may be declared legally dead: The party normally must have been missing from their home or usual residence for an extended period of time, most commonly seven years.’