–on Pattensen, Cummings Lodge corpses

LOCAL police are making arrangements for the DNA results of the samples taken from the unidentified body of a female found at Pattensen, Greater Georgetown and that of a headless corpse found at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, to be uplifted at the same time from Trinidad and Tobago.The samples taken from the skeletal remains of an unidentified female found on June 3, 2014 at Pattensen, Greater Georgetown, and sent to Trinidad and Tobago for DNA testing was expected in Guyana weeks ago. There have been some hiccups, but the results will be in Guyana shortly.

The samples were dispatched to the twin-island republic to determine whether the remains discovered were those of missing schoolteacher Nyozi Goodman, who had disappeared after a basketball game.

At the scene at Pattensen, a belt belonging to Goodman had been found near the skeletal remains on July 24, and it was identified by her mother.

Goodman, 34, a teacher of William Street, Kitty, failed to return home after she had accompanied a group of students to 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 has never again been seen alive.

A suspect was arrested for questioning but later released after the remains were discovered due to the lack of evidence as the 72-hour holding period expired.

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