The ex-boyfriend of 22-year-old Kescia Branche, who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital while being treated after she was brutally beaten, along with the four Police Constables who were detained by investigators for
Dead: Kescia Branche
questioning, has been released.
This is according to acting Crime Chief Paul Williams, who told Guyana Times that the ex-boyfriend of the dead woman was released on bail, while the Police Constables have also been released but remain under close arrest.
Investigators are now said to be pursuing the driver whose taxi Branche used on the night of the incident.
The teacher’s battered body was discovered in an unconscious state on the morning of November 5 and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she later succumbed without ever regaining consciousness.
A post-mortem conducted showed that she died of haemorrhaging due to blunt trauma to the head.
The teacher of Richard Ishmael Secondary School was found at Princes Street and Louisa Row, Georgetown.
Branche, of Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown, had left home for a night of partying. (Kizzy Coleman)
