Police still to identify headless corpse

CRIMINAL Investigation Department ranks in ‘C’ Division are calling on members of the public to assist with identifying the remains of the headless male corpse found on September 22 by workers clearing a cemetery at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara.

Senior police sources told the Guyana Chronicle last evening that the remains are still stored at an unnamed funeral parlour, and there has been no move to ship any samples for DNA testing, since it first needs to be identified.
According to investigators, the police have scanned their list of missing persons, but nothing seems to fit the cadaver. Neither has any post-mortem examination been done as yet, and based on information received by this newspaper, the reason for this is that to date, no one has come forward to identify the body.
The remains were partly clothed at the time of the discovery. On the day in question, a plastic bag containing a head, suspected to be that of the corpse, was also found a short distance away. It is believed that it was fetched there by dogs which were eating away at the body.
It was also observed that the head had heavy-duty plastic seal around it and a car mat was found at the same location.
The discovery of that corpse came weeks after the remains suspected to be that of secondary school teacher Nyozi Goodman was found about half a mile down a lonely alleyway at Turkeyen on the lower East Coast. The woman’s mother has since identified the remains as that of her daughter’s while the police have dispatched samples to Trinidad for DNA testing. Those samples are still being awaited here.
Following the discovery of the remains of the man at the cemetery, there was the case of another body of a man that was found decomposed in his home in Albouystown. He was suspected to have died of natural causes.

(By Leroy Smith)