KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Homi­cide de­tec­tives are yet to de­tain any­one in the sus­pect­ed killing of 65-year-old Mer­ril Sabessar, as they await the re­sults of a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.

Sabessar’s body was dis­cov­ered in­side her ran­sacked home along Pa­pourie Road, Bar­rack­pore, on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers re­ceived a re­port around 1.50 pm that a body had been found at the ad­dress and pro­ceed­ed to the scene.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were told that a rel­a­tive be­came con­cerned af­ter re­peat­ed at­tempts to con­tact Sabessar by cell­phone were un­suc­cess­ful.

The rel­a­tive asked her hus­band to check on Sabessar, and when he went to the house, he ob­served that Sabessar’s ve­hi­cle, a white Nis­san Ti­i­da, was miss­ing from the yard.

He al­so no­ticed that the front door was open and the house ap­peared to have been ran­sacked.

The man lat­er dis­cov­ered that a bed­room on the south-east­ern side of the house was locked. With as­sis­tance from an­oth­er rel­a­tive, he forced open the door and found Sabessar ly­ing mo­tion­less on the floor.

He then left the house and con­tact­ed the po­lice.

When of­fi­cers ar­rived, they were es­cort­ed to the bed­room where Sabessar’s body was found ly­ing on her back on the floor.

It was clad in a pink jer­sey and red Christ­mas-themed py­ja­ma pants and was bare­foot. Po­lice ob­served a small pool of what ap­peared to be blood be­neath her right wrist.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Balkissoon vis­it­ed the scene, viewed the body, and pro­nounced her dead.

He or­dered that the body be re­moved pend­ing a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors from the South­ern Di­vi­sion pho­tographed and processed the scene, but no work­able fin­ger­prints were found.

CSI of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions: Re­gion Three al­so col­lect­ed sev­er­al pieces of ev­i­dence, in­clud­ing a swab of blood, a sil­ver wrist­band and a pair of gold-coloured hoop ear­rings.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers iden­ti­fied sev­er­al cam­eras in the area and re­trieved footage as part of their in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the home yes­ter­day, no one was present.