The police in Hanover are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the killing of a Negril hotelier whose mutilated body was found inside his home Thursday evening.

Dead is 71-year-old Theodore Plummer of a Caulwell, Hanover, address.

Information reaching THE STAR is that Plummer's body was discovered around 5:15 p.m by a friend who went in search of him at his home.

The police say the hotelier was stabbed several times and wrapped in a sheet by his attackers.

His Toyota Probox motor car was also stolen. It is believed that his attackers entered his house by cutting through the roof.

Plummer was the operator of Roots Bamboo Hotel.