SLEUTHS on the East Coast Demerara have registered their determination to crack the Alicia Ali homicide, but no arrests have yet been made although several persons have been questioned.Lead Divisional Detective, Hugh Jessemy told this publication that apart from several relatives, including the teenager’s mother, they have also questioned others and are hoping to have a breakthrough shortly.

He added that they have received pertinent information which will aid in their probe, so the investigations are active.
The nude body of Ali, 15, of Sixth Street Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, was found by passersby at the University of Guyana (UG) seawall on March 25, 2015.
An autopsy revealed that Ali was strangled but died of asphyxia due to drowning. She had also received a blunt trauma to the head.
Police in a statement said that Ali, whose body was discovered at the Turkeyen seawall at about 08:00 hrs on March 25, 2015, was murdered and the cause of death was given as asphyxia due to drowning, compounded by compression injury to the neck and blunt trauma to the head.
Speculations were rife following the discovery of the body when a letter was found in the teen’s room, indicating that the schoolgirl probably took her own life but after the post-mortem was made known, police deemed it as murder.
Ali’s mother, Maylene Williams, told police that she had sent her daughter to a nearby shop to make a purchase on the evening of March 24 but she failed to return home and a search was launched for her. However, she was never reported as missing.
The body bore several marks of violence.

By Michel Outridge