FOLLOWING the death of 72-year-old June Archer of Lot 33-34 Stevedore Housing Scheme, Georgetown on Thursday, the police are in the process of preparing a file for onward transmission to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice on the way forward. A post-mortem yesterday revealed that Archer died as a result of heart failure.

The police have said that at about 17:00 hrs on Thursday, the elderly woman had a row with a female relative, mother of two, who with her two children resided with Archer. Their disagreement which centred on curtains eventually turned physical and Archer reportedly sustained a fall after being pushed. She collapsed and succumbed shortly after, even as the female relative claimed the senior citizen had cuffed her in the face.
Archer had however managed to telephone her son and relate what had transpired before she died.
Archer’s relative and her children subsequently fled the elderly woman’s residence, and their whereabouts remain unknown to the police.
Sleuths have said they have since visited the suspect’s Hadfield Street work place, where she is an accountant, but they were told that she had not shown up for work since the incident.

The police are awaiting advice from the DPP before making a decision on how to proceed with the matter since the fight may have exacerbated the woman’s heart condition and caused her to lose her life.