POLICE Crime Chief, Seelall Persaud disclosed, yesterday, that efforts are being made to have a pathologist from overseas come to Guyana for the exhumation of murdered teenager, Basmattie Moonsammy. Her mutilated corpse was taken from a shallow grave in a rice field on August 4, 2012, but investigators want a second post-mortem done to ascertain the cause of death.
The Assistant Commissioner (Law Enforcement) said, after the first autopsy, performed by Guyanese expert Dr. Vivekanand Bridgmohan, concluded that the cause of her demise was undetermined, three suspects in custody assisting with the investigations were placed on bail.
Persaud said the anticipated other post-mortem will determine the course of action police would take but, for now, arrangements are being made to acquire the services of the foreign pathologist, Trinidadian Dr. Hubert Daisley.                                                                                                                                                 
The Crime Chief added it was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who advised that the expertise of an independent pathologist be sought.
Initially, three men, from Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice, were held for questioning after the teen’s partly decomposing semi-nude body was discovered by a rice farmer.
Following the discovery, the police were summoned and the mother identified her daughter, based on the clothing the latter was wearing at the time of her disappearance.
The 15-year-old, of Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice, too, left home, abandoning her younger siblings, on July 29, 2012, while her mother was at work.
A missing person report was made and, as the search for her ended, other villagers, shocked by the brutal way she was killed, supported the family with the funeral arrangements.
It is believed that the teen was either lured or forcibly taken to the rice field, gang-raped and murdered.