The pub­lic’s help is be­ing sought to iden­ti­fy the body of a woman found at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Mon­day evening.

The se­mi-nude corpse was dis­cov­ered around 6.30 pm near the crick­et nets close to the Pad­dock.

The vic­tim, who is of African de­scent, and be­lieved to be in her late teens, was dressed on­ly in a pink top. Her un­der­wear and re­main­ing gar­ments were found strewn near her body, while her weave was ripped off and tossed near­by.

Of­fi­cers from the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion­al Task Force su­per­vised by act­ing Se­nior Supt Alexan­der and Supt Ram­sook along with ASP Walk­er and Sgt Alexan­der and found the vic­tim’s body on the west­ern side of the en­closed crick­et nets in a crouched po­si­tion on the grass, par­tial­ly hid­den be­hind a rusty met­al bar­rel.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers as­sured the pub­lic that all ef­forts are be­ing made to iden­ti­fy the vic­tim.

Mean­while, they urged peo­ple to re­main vig­i­lant when out and to con­tact the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) if they no­tice any­thing sus­pi­cious.

Of­fi­cers de­clined to say whether the vic­tim had been at­tacked while ex­er­cis­ing at the Sa­van­nah, or if it ap­peared that she had been killed else­where and her body dumped at the lo­ca­tion.

Ofi­cers from the Homi­cide Re­gion 1 un­der the su­per­vi­sion of In­sp Lynch are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In a sim­i­lar in­ci­dent in 2016, the body of 30-year-old Japan­ese steel­pan play­er Asa­mi Na­gakiya was found in the Sa­van­nah by work­ers who were clean­ing the area fol­low­ing the two-days of Car­ni­val rev­el­ry. She had been stran­gled and her body cov­ered with dried leaves and branch­es.

In March 2021, Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard an­nounced the clo­sure of the case as he claimed Na­gakiya’s killer, David Allen, had been killed by po­lice in De­cem­ber 2016. (ALP)