The battered and partially decomposed body of a woman was on Saturday morning discovered stuffed in a barrel found in a trench at Belvidere Squatting Area, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
The barrel in which the body was found
The discovery was made by Hurindranauth Yudan, who told reporters that he noticed the barrel in a trench in front of his yard on Friday morning but did not think anything was amiss.
According to Yudan, an unbearable stench began emanating from the barrel on Saturday morning and as such, he ventured out to investigate.
He said that the barrel was covered with a piece of cloth and he used a stick to remove it. He said that it was then that he made the shocking discovery. According to him, as he removed the cloth, he saw a foot hanging out of the barrel and he raised an alarm.
The police were called and upon closer examination, it was found that the body was wrapped with a bed sheet tightly tied around the woman’s neck and what appears to be marks of violence were seen to her left eye, stomach, left shoulder, left hand and left leg.
While residents were unable to identify the dead woman, they suspect that it could be someone who lived a few houses from where the body was found. Some residents noted that the couple who reside at the suspected house has not been seen for three days now.
They said the couple had been living there for the past three months and had little communication with neighbours. However, the relationship was a verbally abusive one, residents reported.
Nevertheless, based on information received, Police suspect that the woman’s name is “Vanesta”. The man whom she was living with is yet to be arrested but his mother said that if it is indeed Vanesta, she is not Guyanese.
Meanwhile, one neighbour related that she would see the male fetching water from a nearby yard and fulling two blue plastic barrels in his yard.
On Saturday morning only one of the two barrels was in the yard.
However, residents could not provide much information on the couple. The man reportedly works at a nearby poultry farm. Police have since launched a search for him.
