–Male companion last person spotted with woman goes into hiding

THE partly decomposed body of 32-year-old Leutte Glen, a mother of two of 151 Richmond Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast in Region 2, was found floating in the Puruni River on Friday after her friends, failing to make contact with her after four days, mounted a search for her. The body was taken to the Bartica Hospital mortuary.

The woman’s sister, Ciceley Glen, told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that her sister’s friend recalled seeing her in the company of a male last Thursday, but she had never been able to locate her again until her body was discovered floating in the river.

Ciceley said her sister and a friend who would usually travel to the interior made a trip to the Puruni Landing some two weeks ago, and were in process of moving to another interior location since money was not flowing at the Puruni Landing area.

Ciceley said her dead sister’s friend told her about an Amerindian male her sister was seeing even before she had made her last trip to the Puruni Landing. She understands that this male had been constantly behind her sister to go deeper into the backdam with him, but she would always refuse his request, until Monday afternoon when they left.

That woman reportedly told Ciceley that after she did not see Ciceley’s sister return, she went to the camp where the Amerindian male was staying and asked him for the woman, but he reportedly bent his head while responding that he did not know where the woman was.

It was at that point that persons began looking for Ciceley’s sister, before stumbling on her body on Friday morning. When the body was found and the Amerindian male was informed of her death, he immediately vanished from the camp, and up to press time has not been located.

The late Leutte began making trips into the interior last year, and according to her sister, Leutte’s third and last trip into the area was made two weeks ago.

The police are looking to have the post-mortem performed on the body on Monday in order to determine the cause of Leutte’s death. This publication was told that neither the woman’s friends nor her family members are familiar with the name of the man in whose company Leutte was last seen. The police are, however, waiting on the results of the post-mortem before they can go in search of the man, according to police sources.

The police, in a press release, said Leutte was last seen leaving a shop in the area in company of the man on Tuesday, but her friend said she had last seen Leutte on Monday evening.

(By Leroy Smith)