Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice are try­ing to iden­ti­fy the de­com­pos­ing body of a woman found in bush­es near a pri­ma­ry school in Gas­par­il­lo on Wednes­day. The woman was list­ed as a Jane Doe in the po­lice re­port yes­ter­day.

The re­port stat­ed that around 5 pm, a man was cut­ting grass to feed his an­i­mals on the south­ern side of the VOS Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School Recre­ation Ground, lo­cat­ed along Charles Street South, when he de­tect­ed a foul scent com­ing from the bush­es.

He checked the area and dis­cov­ered the de­com­posed body of a woman ly­ing in the bush­es.

Of­fi­cers of the Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion trekked ap­prox­i­mate­ly 110 feet in­to the bush­es from the recre­ation ground, along the bank of the Guaracara Riv­er, where they found the body ly­ing on its left side in an ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion. The woman was clad in a dark-coloured short dress.

Due to the ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion, the dis­trict med­ical of­fi­cer could not de­ter­mine whether the body bore any in­juries or marks of vi­o­lence.

South­ern Di­vi­sion Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors vis­it­ed the scene, and Sgt Heer­alal is lead­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.