Body dumped on roadside: EBD man remanded for murder of Venezuelan woman

An East Bank Demerara (EBD) man was remanded to prison on Tuesday for the murder of Venezuelan national, Evelyn Alfonzo Alves, who was found dead with a gunshot wound to the back of her head over a week ago.
Haslyn Hodge, a 47-year-old resident of Lot 43 Prospect, EBD, arraigned at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court. He was not required to plea to the murder charge read to him by Magistrate Judy Latchman.
The accused will return to court on August 2.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Guyana Police Force said that investigators received legal advice to charge Hodge, who was the prime suspect in the woman’s murder.
On July 7, Alves’s body was found lying on the access road leading into the New Diamond Development Housing Scheme on the East Bank of Demerara – an area primarily under construction.
Based on initial police reports, employees of a local construction company stumbled upon the woman’s body while traveling to refuel an excavator being used for bridge construction in the vicinity.
The mother of two was found lying face down on the roadway. The workers informed the police, who went to the scene.
At the time of discovery, the deceased was dressed in a white jersey with a female photograph, black jeans, and black pumps. She bore a distinctive butterfly tattoo on her right arm, and her head was found in a pool of blood.

Detectives recovered a 9mm spent shell casing approximately ten feet from where the victim lay, along with a cell phone in close proximity to her body. An examination revealed a gunshot wound at the back of her head. Investigations are continuing.
In another section of the media, it was reported that the now dead woman was reportedly threatened and intimated by two men. It was reported that Alves left home on Saturday in the company of a female to collect some money but did not return home.
Calls to her mobile phone went unanswered. Her mother was reportedly shown a photo of a woman’s body lying in a pool of blood at Diamond. Taking into consideration the threats and the fact that her daughter did not return home, the woman went to the mortuary where her worst fears were confirmed.
Alves reportedly migrated to Guyana some six years ago. (G8)