CRIMINAL Investigation ranks in Police ‘C’ Division are calling on persons to come forward to see whether they can identify the remains of a man who was discovered on September 22nd by workers who were clearing a cemetery at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara.

Speaking with senior police sources last evening, this newspaper was told that the remains have been stored at a funeral parlour but there has been no move to have any part of the remains shipped for DNA testing since it first needs to be identified.
According to investigators, the police have scanned the list of their missing persons but to no avail.
There has been no post-mortem as yet on the remains and based on information received by this newspaper that is largely because no one has come forward to identify the body. The remains were partly clothed at the time the discovery was made.
On the day the remains were discovered a plastic bag containing the head suspected to be from the body was also found a short distance away after it was fetched there by dogs who were eating away at the dumped 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. It was suspected that the body was dumped there after it had been brought from some other part of the city or upper East Coast Demerara.
The discovery of that body 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 while the police sent samples to Trinidad for DNA testing. Those samples have not yet returned.
Following the discovery of the remains of the male at the cemetery there was the discovery of another man whose body was found decomposed in his home in Albouystown. He was suspected to have died of natural causes.

(By Leroy Smith)