Police yet to present nurse’s phone records to DPP
Schenise Apple’s murder
Dead: Schenise Apple
The case file on the suspected murder of Schenise Apple – whose lifeless body was discovered in her room at the Nurses’ Hostel in Mahdia, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) – is still incomplete since the information requested by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is yet to be provided.
This was according to the Public Relations Office of the DPP Chambers on Tuesday. Guyana Times was told that even though the DPP had requested for the police to collect and provide the telephone records from Apple’s phone, that was not done.
“This is the second time the file was resent to the police for that bit of information but the police have not furnished the DPP Chambers with such… the file was resent on August 31 with the recommendations and it was supposed to be returned on September 30,” the DPP Chambers told this publication.
The nurse’s body was found on July 2, 2019, after she did not report for duty at the Mahdia Hospital. After not seeing the woman, one of her colleagues enquired about her, and it was then that they visited the hostel and found her body.
It was initially suspected that the nurse had committed suicide, but from the inception, her family believed otherwise. However, a post-mortem examination (PME) that was done on the woman’s body proved that she was murdered.
Apple’s mother, Shonette Apple, in an interview had told <<<Guyana Times>>> that she is frustrated by the police’s slothfulness in her daughter’s case. She said it has been one year and she is yet to hear anything from the police.
“They don’t respect young women, they don’t. Her life just went down just like that,” she underscored. As such, she is calling for justice for her daughter.
“I need justice. I need closure… My daughter was drugged, raped, and murdered, I know that”, the woman said.
The young nurse was posted at the Mahdia Hospital from Linden Hospital Complex back in November of 2018 as part of her contract and worked at that medical facility up to the time of her demise.
