The fam­i­ly of 11-year-old Adri­an­na Younge has called on the Gov­ern­ment to have the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) in the Unit­ed States or oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al law en­force­ment bod­ies to in­ves­ti­gate the young girl’s death.

On Fri­day, Adri­an­na’s fam­i­ly re­fused to al­low the au­top­sy to be con­duct­ed by a Bar­ba­dos-based foren­sic pathol­o­gist.

“There was no post mortem. The fam­i­ly is seek­ing to get an in­de­pen­dent per­son. We’re work­ing to get some­body over­seas now,” the fam­i­ly’s lawyer, Dar­ren Wade said dur­ing an in­ter­view with De­mer­ara Waves On­line News.

Re­it­er­at­ing that “the fam­i­ly has no con­fi­dence in the Guyana Po­lice Force (GPF) to car­ry out an im­par­tial and thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in this mat­ter,” he said they want­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tors from the US Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion or the Roy­al Cana­di­an Mount­ed Po­lice.

How­ev­er, late Fri­day, the Guyana po­lice it was push­ing ahead with its in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The law en­force­ment agency said in­ves­ti­ga­tors have ques­tioned sev­er­al per­sons, in­clud­ing the pro­pri­etor of Dou­ble Day Ho­tel and Bar and his em­ploy­ees along with a se­cu­ri­ty guard at­tached to the ho­tel and a swim­ming in­struc­tor.

Younge’s body was seen in the Dou­ble Day pool on Thurs­day, in stark con­trast to the po­lice say­ing that she was seen en­ter­ing a car that was iden­ti­fied by colour and li­cence num­ber.

On Fri­day, Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali , how­ev­er, main­tained that Bar­ba­dos-based in­ter­na­tion­al foren­sic pathol­o­gist, Dr Shub­hakar Kar­ra Paul, who is al­ready here, would con­duct the post-mortem and the fam­i­ly’s pathol­o­gist would be al­lowed to ob­serve and ask ques­tions.

But Wade ques­tioned Paul’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions, and he pub­licly called on the Guyana gov­ern­ment to dis­close whether Paul has post­grad­u­ate train­ing in anatom­i­cal pathol­o­gy.

“Fur­ther­more, if such qual­i­fi­ca­tions ex­ist, we re­quest con­fir­ma­tion as to whether he holds a sub­spe­cial­ty in foren­sic pathol­o­gy, and if so, where he re­ceived his train­ing in these dis­ci­plines,” the lawyer added.

Paul boasts over 23 years of ex­pe­ri­ence in foren­sic pathol­o­gy, in­clud­ing au­top­sy ex­am­i­na­tions, scene vis­its, and skele­tal re­mains ex­am­i­na­tions.

He was al­so the foren­sic med­ical ex­am­in­er to three po­lice con­stab­u­lar­ies in the Unit­ed King­dom.

He cur­rent­ly serves as con­sul­tant foren­sic pathol­o­gist at Bar­ba­dos’ foren­sic sci­ences of the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

He al­so served as a Pro­gramme Man­ag­er for foren­sic med­i­cine in North­ern Ire­land, and an As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor in sev­er­al De­part­ments of foren­sic med­i­cine in In­dia.

For its part, the GPF said, “It is sig­nif­i­cant to note that the Guyana Po­lice Force is al­so await­ing the ar­rival of an­oth­er in­de­pen­dent pathol­o­gist who was iden­ti­fied by fam­i­ly mem­bers of the de­ceased to per­form the post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion. The post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion is an im­por­tant as­pect of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in or­der to con­firm the cause of death of Adri­ana Younge,” the po­lice force added.

Mean­while As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Khalid Man­dall was re­moved from his post as Com­man­der of Re­gion­al Po­lice Di­vi­sion Three on Fri­day and re­placed by As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ma­hen­dra Si­w­nar­ine fol­low­ing the death of Adri­an­na.

Ac­cord­ing to Si­w­nar­ine the re­as­sign­ments are ef­fec­tive im­me­di­ate­ly.

There have been many calls for the res­ig­na­tion of Man­dall due to out­rage over the Po­lice’s han­dling of Adri­an­na’s dis­ap­pear­ance.