"After being found dead"

In a message dated 3/26/2011 3:36:21 P.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@gmail.com
writes:
Don't know nothing about ["after" being] no "truth-functional".

----- This gave me the clue. By replacing 'after' by 'before' we get a
more impeccable version than the one McEvoy finds impeccable:


2. A British tourist who have been missing for five days in Hong Kong is
suspected
to have been murdered BEFORE being found dead.

---- In this way, we avoid the unwanted implicature that he was murdered
on top (i.e. after) being found dead. And so on.

---- Speranza

----

An unfortunate inversion of events has occurred, according to The
Independent of 20 March, Hazel Parry notes: "A British tourist who
has been missing for five days in Hong Kong is suspected to have
been murdered after being found dead, police said Sunday."
-------------- in M. Quinion, online, World Wide Words

It may be argued, against my editorial change of 'after' for 'before', that in the original

1. A British tourist who have been missing for five days in Hong Kong is suspected
to have been murdered after being found dead.

the 'after' does not apply to 'have been murdered', but to 'suspected'. I.e. The police suspects, after, obviosuly, having found the corpse, that the person to whom the corpse belonged _was_ the victim of a (indeed his own) murder.

Or something.