POLICE officials investigating discovery of the nude body of 14-year-old Alicia Ali — the Campbellville Secondary School student of Cummings Lodge, ECD — on the Turkeyen foreshore on Wednesday morning are likely to question her mother’s ex-lover.New information reaching this newspaper indicated that the man, with whom her mother had shared a relationship before separating from him, had begun threatening the teenager after his relationship with her mother had gone on the rocks.

A relative in whom the late Alicia Ali confided told this publication that, during one of their many conversations, the teen had indicated that the man had threatened to harm her. The relative would, however, not say what threats her cousin had received from her mother’s former reputed husband.

Police investigators who visited the home of the late Alicia Ali came across an apparent suicide note which was found in her bedroom. In that note, the teen reportedly indicated, among other things, that by the time the note is found, she may already be dead.

Police investigators also spoke with the late Alicia’s teacher and classmates yesterday. The teen’s mother had reportedly not communicated to the police that her ex–lover had allegedly threatened the teen’s life; it is unclear whether this mother had been aware that her daughter had been so threatened.

Confirmed information suggests that the young lady and her mother had been experiencing misunderstandings in their relationship, and had not been on speaking terms at time of the teen’s death.

When reporters approached the mother for a comment on the passing of her daughter, she was very hesitant to entertain any questions or share any information about her daughter and/or the discovery of her dead body on the foreshore. It was, however, pointed out that the teenager — youngest of her siblings – had been sent to purchase bread, but never returned home. Police sources have indicated that, Alicia’s absence notwithstanding, no report had been made to the police indicating that Alicia could not be found.

Up to the time of discovery of her body on Wednesday, neither her mother nor any other relative had reported her missing. It was not until Tuesday afternoon that family members had begun calling other persons in a bid to locate Alicia, and that was shortly before they received information of the body that had earlier been discovered at the foreshore.

Alicia Ali is survived by four sisters and one brother, all of whom are older than she had been. The family once lived on the West Coast of Demerara, but moved to the East Coast of Demerara just over a year ago. Alicia’s father passed away some five years ago.

Last Wednesday, police officials were called to investigate the presence of the nude body of a female which was lying among the rocks on the seashore at Turkeyen with suspected marks of violence.

Meanwhile, as the police continue their investigations into that matter, they were forced to reopen another investigation, this time further on the East Coast Demerara, where the nude torso of a woman was discovered. The remains appeared to be relatively fresh, and her limbs appeared to have been cleverly and neatly severed with what might have been a saw.

By Leroy Smith