WHO killed 15-year-old Alicia Ali? That’s the burning question which highlights the persistent mystery ever since her nude body was discovered on the foreshore in March this year, among boulders in the vicinity of Turkeyen seawall, East Coast Demerara.
Only a few persons know exactly how the former Campbellville Secondary School student of Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, met the dreadful end but so far they have managed to conceal the truth.

According to sleuths, initially several persons, including close relatives of Alicia Ali, were taken into custody and questioned but later released after there was no evidence to solidify their suspicion.

The girl’s mother, Maylene Williams, her stepfather and two boyfriends were among those interrogated by detectives following the discovery of her nude body.

Police had said that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) reviewed the case and recommended that they do some more work since there was nothing substantial to effect an arrest.

Speculation was rife following the discovery of the body, when a letter was found in the teen’s room indicating that the schoolgirl probably took her own life, but after the results of the post-mortem were released, the police deemed it a homicide.

The post-mortem revealed that Ali was strangled but died of asphyxia due to drowning compounded by a compression injury to the neck.
Ali’s mother told police that she had sent her daughter to a nearby shop to make a purchase on the evening of March 24, 2015 but she failed to return home and a search was launched for her.
The clothes the teen was wearing at the time of her murder are yet to be found. It is believed that she was killed elsewhere and her body stripped and dumped at the seawall location during the wee hours of the morning of March 25.
The body which had several marks of violence was discovered at about 08:00 hrs by joggers who were running along the Turkeyen seawall.
Police in ‘C’ Division said the case is still ongoing but no new arrests have yet been made and they remain optimistic they will get a breakthrough and solve the murder.

By Michel Outridge