Investigators probing the gruesome attack on the late 22-year-old Kescia Branche have arrested an “associate” of the young woman, with whom she was in contact hours before she was discovered in an unconscious state.
“The deceased was in contact with a male on several occasions via cell phone in the early hours of that morning,” Police said in a statement on Friday.
Dead: Kescia Branche
Guyana Times understands that upon examining the cellular phone of the deceased, detectives came across the number, and as such, tracked down and arrested the associate on Friday morning. The man is in custody, assisting with the investigations.
On Thursday, investigators hauled in Branche’s former partner, the father of her son, for questioning. He, too, remains in custody.
Even as these two are being questioned, the two Police Constables with whom the young woman was seen leaving a city night club remain under close arrest.
Additionally, two other ranks are being questioned after phone records show that they were in constant contact with one of the constables after he left the night club in company of the now dead young woman.
Meanwhile, a post mortem revealed that Branche died as a result og brain haemorrhage and blunt trauma to the head.
The unconscious Richard Ishmael Secondary School teacher was found in the vicinity of Princes Street and Louisa Row, Georgetown on Sunday morning, and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC), where she remained in an unconscious state hooked up to life support machines until Tuesday, when she succumbed to her injuries at some time around 17:00h.
Branche, who had resided in Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown, was last seen on Saturday evening when she left for a night out with her friends, and the Police are seeking the public’s assistance to determine what may have transpired that resulted in the inhumane beating the young woman had received.
A source close to the investigation revealed that detectives on Monday reviewed the CCTV footage at a popular Newtown nightclub where the woman was seen partying on Saturday evening, and came across evidence of the two uniformed officers interacting with the deceased.
It was shown that the young woman left with the ranks, hopping on the back of one the motorcycles. This publication understands that investigators were told that they then proceeded to Mandela Avenue to get barbeque, and while there, one of the ranks reported left to use the washroom.
Upon his return, he told detectives, the young woman was not there, and his colleague said she had left in a taxi.
The battered and unconscious body of the 22-year-old was found on the corner of Princess Street and Louisa Row at sometime around 05:00h on Sunday.
