An au­top­sy on the sev­ered head of Siparia grand­moth­er Joann Estick has con­firmed that it was chopped off.

Po­lice said the au­top­sy was done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, af­ter which it was re­leased to her fam­i­ly.

Estick’s head was found in a cool­er at the side of the road last Thurs­day.

Of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force were on pa­trol around 1.15 pm, when some­one di­rect­ed them to a bag near a drain at Sen­non Vil­lage. In­side the bag, they dis­cov­ered a small white plas­tic cool­er, par­tial­ly opened, con­tain­ing Estick’s sev­ered head.

Guardian Me­dia was told that Estick did odd jobs in the vil­lage, clean­ing yards and wash­ing cars. Rel­a­tives and friends ad­mit­ted she used drugs, but they could not un­der­stand why she was mur­dered in such hor­rif­ic cir­cum­stances.

A vil­lager claimed Estick called him 12 times on What­sApp ear­ly Tues­day morn­ing.

Up to last evening, the rest of her body had still not been found, and the po­lice had no sus­pects in cus­tody for her mur­der.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing. —Sascha Wil­son