RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

A week af­ter po­lice found Sa­van­na Dy­er’s body in Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, in­ves­ti­ga­tors have charged a 21-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer from Laven­tille with her mur­der.

Kib­we Wells, of Quar­ry Street, East Dry Riv­er, is sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a High Court mas­ter at the South Court B to­day in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

Guardian Me­dia was told that Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Sab­ri­na Dougdeen-Jaglal re­viewed the case file on Sat­ur­day and in­struct­ed of­fi­cers to lay the charge. She al­so gave in­struc­tions to charge a sec­ond sus­pect, who re­mains un­der ob­ser­va­tion and treat­ment at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal.

Of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three, un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Supt Per­sad, ASP Ma­haraj, and Sgt Bridge­mo­han, con­duct­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to Dy­er’s mur­der, while PC Lall of­fi­cial­ly charged Wells.

Videos of Dy­er ly­ing par­tial­ly nude on the road­side sparked con­cern among the cit­i­zen­ry af­ter her death.

The 21-year-old, of Diego Mar­tin, was last seen on the night of June 13, lim­ing at a Barataria bar with a group friends. Sur­veil­lance footage al­leged­ly showed her en­ter­ing a black ve­hi­cle af­ter­wards. There was al­so a video of her be­ing giv­en an over­sized di­a­mond ring by a man. An­oth­er video of a man al­leged­ly con­fess­ing to her mur­der al­so cir­cu­lat­ed.

Dy­er’s body was dis­cov­ered at Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, on June 14, and an au­top­sy con­duct­ed on her body re­vealed she was shot in the head.