POLICE are still seeking a person of interest from the Paradise community who is expected to aid significantly in the investigation into the February 25 murder of fast food outlet employee, Patricia Younge.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has said that samples were taken from her common-law husband with whom she resided prior to her demise. These samples are being stored until they arrest the suspect and then another set of samples will be taken and sent to Brazil for DNA analysis.

The decomposing and semi-nude body of the 19-year-old woman of Paradise, East Coast of Demerara, was found in village cemetery under a tree on February 25.

Persaud told the Guyana Chronicle that the woman’s common-law husband has since been put on bail.

The teenager was last seen on February 23 when she left her home alone to view the Mashramani float parade in the city.

Her common-law husband reported her missing on February 25 and after she failed to report for work the following Monday, her colleagues began to enquire of her whereabouts, which started a search by friends and relatives.

It was her common-law husband who saw her sandals on the Paradise Public Road, near the cemetery and alerted others and then her corpse was discovered.

Upon the discovery, the young man was held and detained for questioning before his conditional release.

Younge, who used to live with relatives at Plaisance, another East Coast of Demerara village, moved in with the young man after meeting him.

A post-mortem determined that Younge was strangled but it did not reveal whether she was sexually assaulted.

(By Michel Outridge)