INVESTIGATORS certainly have not forgotten the brutal homicide of 15-year-old schoolgirl, Alicia Ali, whose mutilated, nude body was found on the Kitty seawall foreshore on Wednesday, March 25 by passersby.Following the murder of the Sixth Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara resident, crime sleuths have questioned several persons including the mother, step-father and two boyfriends.

As it is, the police in ‘C’ Division are looking for a male person of interest whom they would like to question, since they are of the opinion that he may be able to shed some light on that case.

Lead Divisional Detective, Hugh Jessemy, told this publication that once they locate that person, they hope he would be able to provide information pertinent to the probe.

An autopsy revealed that Ali was strangled but died of asphyxia due to drowning compounded by a compression injury to the neck.

Speculation was 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 results of post-mortem were released, the police deemed it a homicide.

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 Tuesday, March 24, but she failed to return home and a search was launched for her.

The teen’s clothes she was wearing at the time of her murder and her cellphone are yet to be found. It is believed that she was killed elsewhere and her body stripped and dumped at the seawall location during the wee hours of the morning of Wednesday, March 25.