DNA results for Pattensen skeletal remains available
DNA test results from samples taken from the skeletal remains of an unidentified female found on June 3, 2014 at Pattensen, Greater Georgetown, which were sent to Trinidad and Tobago for testing, are available.This publication understands that the results are ready, but the assigned officer was unavailable to collect; as such, the findings will not be known until it has been received by local law enforcement.
The samples were taken and dispatched to the twin- island republic to determine if the remains discovered were that of missing schoolteacher, Nyozi Goodman, who disappeared after a basketball game.
At the scene at Pattensen, Greater Georgetown, a belt belonging to Goodman was found near the skeletal remains on July 24, 2014 and was identified by her mother.
Goodman, 34, of William Street, Kitty, had failed to return home after she accompanied a group of students to the Inter-Secondary Schools Basketball Championship in the city on June 3, 2014.
She sent her students ahead, while informing them that she would be picked up by a friend and was never seen alive again.
A post-mortem conducted on July 28, 2014 by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh on the remains of the so- far unidentified female found aback Pattensen, in a bushy area, gave the cause of death as incised wounds to the abdomen.
