ARRANGEMENTS are being made to secure the services of a pathologist from overseas to perform a second post -mortem on the body of murdered teenager, Basmattie Moonsammy, 15, of Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice. Her decomposing body was found on August 4, 2012 in a shallow grave and Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law Enforcement) Seelall Persaud said Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack has since advised that another autopsy be conducted to determine the cause of death.
He told the Guyana Chronicle that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) is seeking to acquire the services of Trinidad-based pathologist, Dr. Hubert Daisley for that purpose but there have been some glitches since he is very busy.
The Crime Chief said, once the pathologist gets here, the corpse would be exhumed. After the first post- mortem, done by local pathologist, Dr. Vivekanand Bridgejmohan deemed the cause of death as undetermined, three suspects who were in police custody assisting with investigations were placed on bail.
The three men from the same village as the victim were held for questioning days after the teen’s partly decomposing semi-nude body was discovered, by a villager, buried in a shallow grave in a rice field.
The man who made the discovery is a rice farmer who was on his way to tend his crop at Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice.
The teenager’s mother identified her daughter by  the clothing she was wearing at the time of her disappearance.
The girl had, reportedly, left home while her mother was at work, for an unknown destination on July 29, abandoning her younger siblings.
A missing person report was made to the police and her mother searched days for her before her brutal demise shocked other residents and they pledged their support to the family in making funeral arrangements.
It is believed that the teen was either lured or forcibly taken to the rice field aback of the village where she lived, gang raped and murdered.