The pub­lic’s as­sis­tance con­tin­ues to be sought to iden­ti­fy the body of a man found in the St Joseph Riv­er last Fri­day.

Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials said yes­ter­day that no one had come for­ward to as­sist au­thor­i­ties in iden­ti­fy­ing the vic­tim.

The de­com­pos­ing corpse was spot­ted around noon by an em­ploy­ee of Nestlé Trinidad Ltd. Po­lice were alert­ed and the body was re­trieved sev­er­al hours lat­er.

No cause of death has yet been de­ter­mined.

Of­fi­cials said no iden­ti­fi­able tat­toos or birth­marks were found that could as­sist in iden­ti­fy­ing the vic­tim, and of­fi­cers were un­able to de­ter­mine how long the man had been in the wa­ter.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing to de­ter­mine whether the vic­tim match­es the pro­file of any­one re­port­ed miss­ing.