A man whose sis­ter was killed in an al­leged do­mes­tic in­ci­dent is ad­vis­ing that back­ground checks be done on prospec­tive part­ners.

The man, who gave his name on­ly as Den­nis, was at the Foren­sics Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day for the post-mortem on his sis­ter Rachel Noel, 57, whose mu­ti­lat­ed body was found face down in the sand at Man­zanil­la Beach on Sat­ur­day.

Noel, who lived at Walke Street, San­gre Grande, was em­ployed at the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal. She was last seen alive on Fri­day at a bar on Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande, in the com­pa­ny of a man known to the po­lice.
Her body was found by a con­trac­tor who was do­ing road works along the Man­zanil­la/Ma­yaro Road.

Den­nis, who de­scribed his sis­ter as hard-work­ing, said, “She was a very pro­gres­sive per­son. She was a very nice and kind per­son. She was al­ways will­ing to help any and every­body who need­ed that help.”

He said he last spoke with her ap­prox­i­mate­ly one month be­fore her death and claimed she had been in­volved in an abu­sive re­la­tion­ship.

“She was even afraid to talk to her own broth­ers, her own fam­i­ly...be­cause if he even knew she was talk­ing to us, he would get vi­o­lent,” he said.

Den­nis added: “My ad­vice to peo­ple in gen­er­al is that be­fore you get hooked up in a re­la­tion­ship, try and check the per­son’s back­ground and find out about that per­son. You could be form­ing a re­la­tion­ship with a per­son who is crim­i­nal­ly in­sane.”

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to Noel’s death are con­tin­u­ing.