Body on seawall

Woman was manually strangled

 

Patricia Newman-Charles, whose body was found on the Kitty seawall two Saturdays ago, was manually strangled, an autopsy revealed yesterday.

Patricia Newman-Charles - pix from Stabroek News

Police confirmed the findings of the autopsy, but declined to say whether they have made any progress in their investigations.

However, Kaieteur News understands that the four men who are in custody were subjected to intensive questioning yesterday at two police stations. They remained in custody last night.

The men were picked up after records at Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) revealed that they had telephoned Charles shortly before her death.

One of the suspects is a minibus owner who appears to be the last person that Charles contacted by telephone before she disappeared.

It appears that police suspect that the 26-year-old woman was slain elsewhere and then dumped near the seawalls.

Police said that only one boot belonging to the victim was found near the corpse.

So far, no motive was suggested for her murder.

Saturday 10-15-2005