An­na- Lisa Paul

Al­though po­lice of­fi­cers yes­ter­day re­cov­ered the de­cap­i­tat­ed head of a man float­ing in a drain near the Mal­oney Walkover, the de­ceased was not iden­ti­fied up to Thurs­day night.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials ex­plained that while the head was recog­nis­able, the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion could not be com­plet­ed in the ab­sence of a body.

A re­port was re­ceived by the Com­mand Cen­tre around 6.37 am that a hu­man head was seen bob­bing in the drain, which runs par­al­lel to the east­bound lane of the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way in Mal­oney, just be­fore Mau­si­ca Junc­tion.

Ar­riv­ing of­fi­cers re­trieved the head of the man fol­low­ing in­struc­tions by the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer.

The de­ceased was said to be dark in com­plex­ion, with a low hair­cut and a neat­ly cut beard.

Of­fi­cials spec­u­lat­ed that the head had been cut off us­ing a knife or cut­lass, as the dis­mem­ber­ment was crude­ly done.

The head was hand­ed over to of­fi­cials at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, hours af­ter it was found.

Mean­while, a car found aban­doned along the side of the Blan­chisseuse Road in Ari­ma around 3 pm yes­ter­day, was be­lieved to have been used to trans­port the head.

The ve­hi­cle was towed and tak­en to Cu­mu­to, where foren­sic ev­i­dence was to have been col­lect­ed.

Of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau Re­gion 2 are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.