KEVON FELMINE

Se­nior Re­porter

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion fol­low­ing the grim dis­cov­ery of skele­tal re­mains by a crab catch­er in Fish­ing Pond, via San­gre Grande, on Wednes­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the 49-year-old man was set­ting crab traps along a beach when he stum­bled up­on hu­man skele­tal re­mains scat­tered along the shore­line.

Dis­turbed by the find, he con­tact­ed the po­lice.

Of­fi­cers from the San­gre Grande CID Op­er­a­tions Team, in­clud­ing Ag Sgt Ram­nar­ine and Con­sta­bles Singh, Red­head, Singh, and Sealy, along with Cor­po­ral Rivers, PC Mc­Queen, and PC Be­guesse from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion Two, re­spond­ed to the call.

Ac­com­pa­nied by the crab catch­er, they pro­ceed­ed to Com­paro Road, Fish­ing Pond, at around mid­day.

The team trekked ap­prox­i­mate­ly two miles in­to a dense­ly forest­ed area be­fore mov­ing an­oth­er 400 me­tres north along the coast­line, where they came up­on the skele­tal re­mains.

The of­fi­cers not­ed that the skull and tor­so were about two feet apart, while sev­er­al ribs were found scat­tered ap­prox­i­mate­ly four feet away.

The re­mains had been sig­nif­i­cant­ly de­com­posed, mak­ing it im­pos­si­ble to de­ter­mine the cause of death or the iden­ti­ty of the de­ceased.

Giv­en the con­di­tion of the re­mains, po­lice could not im­me­di­ate­ly as­cer­tain whether foul play was in­volved.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Mo­hammed ex­am­ined the re­mains and sub­se­quent­ly or­dered their re­moval to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James for a post-mortem ex­am­i­na­tion.

The Man­zanil­la po­lice have since tak­en over the in­ves­ti­ga­tion as ef­forts con­tin­ue to es­tab­lish the iden­ti­ty of the de­ceased and the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the dis­cov­ery.

Po­lice are urg­ing any­one with in­for­ma­tion that may as­sist in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion to come for­ward.