The body of a female chef was on Thursday pulled from the Puruni River in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) hours after a suspect confessed to murdering the woman and throwing her body overboard.
Dead: Miriam Edwards
The woman has been identified as 25-year-old Miriam Edwards, a mother of two and resident of St Cuthbert’s Mission. From reports gathered, the woman was working as a chef at a mining camp at Kumung Kumung Backdam, Puruni River.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, when contacted, explained that residents had reported to the Police that they had apprehended a miner who admitted to robbing, murdering and dumping the body of a cook in the river.
Reports are that the man robbed the woman of a quantity of gold before committing the act, and it is suspected that he had also raped her.
Upon receiving the report, ranks were dispatched to the scene, where the woman’s nude body was subsequently pulled from the river. Blanhum further stated that the suspect has been handed over to the Police, and is being questioned in relation to the murder.
As investigations continue, the woman’s family are left perplexed as to what might have transpired on the day the woman was killed.
The woman’s sister, Sarah Edwards, who resides in Brazil, stated that she is baffled by the woman’s sudden death, and is demanding answers as to why the suspect gruesomely murdered her sister.
“I would like to see him. All I want to know is why he did this to my sister,” she said. The woman related that she is unaware of what exactly transpired, or when exactly the woman was murdered.
“I had a phone call from a lady…she said that, ‘Your sister dead, a guy killed your sister, robbed her where she worked in the backdam’. That’s all I heard.”
She related that she had spoken with her sister on Tuesday, and Edwards had informed her that she was returning home soon.
Edwards was a mother of two girls, aged 8 and 6. Though they do not live with her, Sarah said, Miriam would work to support her children.
“She has two children in Georgetown who stay with their father’s parents. So she gone and work as a cook…she does support them kids,” the sister explained.
The sister has said she is emotionally devastated and deeply saddened by this news, and is hoping to get answers soon.
“Right now I am weak, weak… It’s hard for me, I live in Brazil, I don’t really be in Guyana, so it’s hard for me because I don’t really know how to get to she body, but I’m trying,” the sister explained.
