It was a dog's love that reportedly led a son to his father's body in bushes yesterday.

Dead is Copeland Coulbourne, 80-year-old farmer of Content district, St Catherine. Colbourne's body was found yesterday after he did not return home on Tuesday night. His body was found with stab wounds.

"When I did not see him and we start to look fi him. Mi si di dog come meet me and go and sit beside di body," Lewitt Coulbourne said.

He said that he did not see his father on Tuesday night.

Coulbourne said calls to his father's phone went unanswered and that he became worried.

As the news of Coulbourne's death spread throughout the community, residents converged on the scene. The consensus was that the killing of the elderly man was a wicked act.

"Everybody love him so I don't know why them kill him. It really wicked man," Icis Coulbourne said.

Meanwhile the St Catherine North police have started a probe into the matter.