THE preliminary inquiry into the death of secondary schoolteacher Kescia Branche continued on Tuesday with the third witness taking the stand before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman.

On remand for the indictable offence is 47-year-old taxi driver, Matthew Munroe.
On Tuesday, Police Officer Sergeant Keith Conway, who is attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, testified.
The PI will continue today, May 30.

Last week, Osafo Felix, a policeman who is attached to the Crime Laboratory as a photographer and Police Officer Sergeant Rawle Nedd, testified.
Branche, a mother of one of Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown, was last seen on November 4, 2017, when she left for a night out with her friends.

Her unconscious body was found in the vicinity of Princes Street and Louisa Row the following day. Her left leg was broken and there was evidence that she had sustained multiple head injuries.

The Richard Ishmael Secondary School teacher died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) two days after. A post-mortem indicated that she died as a result of brain haemorrhage.