DNA results expected this weekend—Crime Chief

CRIME Chief, Leslie James has reported that the samples taken from the skeletal remains of an unidentified female found on June 3 at Pattensen, Greater Georgetown, which were sent to Trinidad and Tobago for DNA testing is expected in Guyana this weekend.The samples were taken and dispatched to the twin- island republic to determine if the remains discovered is that of missing schoolteacher, Nyozi Goodman, who had disappeared after a basketball game.
He added that the samples were dispatched several weeks ago and they are awaiting the results for the way forward and even closure for relatives.
At the scene at Pattensen, a belt belonging to Goodman was found near the skeletal remains on July 24 and was identified by her mother.

Goodman, 34, of William Street, Kitty, failed to return home after she had accompanied a group of students for the Inter-Secondary Schools Basketball Championship in the city on June 3.

She had sent her students ahead, while informing them that she would be picked up by a friend and was never seen alive again.

It turned out that the friend did arrive, but persons were not able to ascertain who the individual was.
However, others who saw the woman in the company of the man on the night shared the information with sleuths and the man was arrested for questioning; he however had solid alibis, which caused him to be released from police custody.

After the remains were discovered, he was re-arrested and again released due to the lack of evidence, since the 72-hour holding period had expired.

A post-mortem conducted on July 28 by Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh on the remains of a so far unidentified female found aback Turkeyen, in a bushy area, gave the cause of death as incised wounds to the abdomen.

(By Michel Outridge)