Police now looking for person of interest

CRIME Chief Seelall Persaud said, Monday, that the police are now looking for ‘a person of interest’ in their probe of the Patricia Younge murder.The decomposing and semi-nude body of the 19-year-old victim, of Paradise, East Coast of Demerara, was found in village cemetery under a tree on February 25.
The Deputy Commissioner (Law Enforcement) told the Guyana Chronicle that the woman’s common-law husband, with whom she lived, has since been put on bail.
Persaud is of the opinion that the suspect they are seeking can help in the investigation.
The former fast food restaurant employee was last seen two Sundays ago when she left her home alone, to watch the Mashramani float parade in the city.
Her common-law husband reported her missing on February 25 and, after she failed to report for work the following Monday, her colleagues began to enquire of her whereabouts, which started a search by friends and relatives.
It was her common-law husband, who saw her sandals on the Paradise Pubic Road, near the cemetery and alerted others after which her corpse was discovered.
Upon the discovery, the young man was held and detained for questioning before his conditional release.
Younge, who used to live with relatives at Plaisance, another East Coast of Demerara village, moved in with the young man after meeting him.
A post mortem ascertained that Younge was strangled but it did not reveal whether she was sexually assaulted.