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Woman’s skeletal remains…Missing teacher’s mother says belt at scene is daughter’s
– cops release suspect
“That is my daughter’s belt.”
This is what a stunned Carol Greene, mother of missing teacher Nyozi Goodman, told detectives yesterday after being shown the canvas belt that was wrapped around the right hand of the skeletal remains found at Pattensen, East Coast Demerara last Thursday.
Missing: Nyozi Goodman
Ms. Greene visited Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, early yesterday, where she was shown a bag containing the belt and a pair of Victoria’s Secret underwear which detectives found next to the remains.
Detectives also took hair samples from Greene which they claimed will be taken overseas so that it can be determined whether the decomposed remains found at Pattensen is that of missing teacher, Nyozi Goodman.
“I cannot say whether the panty belongs to my daughter because she has a lot but they showed me a canvas belt and it is definitely hers. I know my daughter had two belts and when I was packing her stuff, I did not see her canvas belt,” a devastated Greene said.
She added that ranks took hair samples from her and asked that she return at another date with one of Goodman’s siblings so that blood samples can be taken. The samples are for DNA testing and will be sent overseas early next week.
According to a senior police source, the samples will either be sent to Jamaica or Barbados. A decision will be made later this week.
Social activist Mark Benschop had offered to pay for DNA tests which would have been sent to a local laboratory, but police turned the offer down.
Asked if the police force ever considered doing the tests locally, a senior police official said that even the private labs take the samples overseas to be tested.
“These labs do not do the tests here. They send it overseas just like we do,” the senior official added. He said that in most cases, it takes several months before the DNA results return, but, in this case, police will try their best to get the results earlier.
Asked if family members can pay to have the tests done at a local laboratory, the police official said that given the fact that this is a police investigation, the Commissioner of Police will have to make a decision.
Police confirmed yesterday that a taxi driver who is being questioned about Goodman’s disappearance was released yesterday.
Meanwhile, a seemingly distressed Carol Greene lashed also out at the Guyana Police Force saying that they have her like a “roller coaster.”
“I am living in Linden and the police have me going and coming and they are not saying anything to me. If I don’t call them, they would never call me,” Greene said.
She explained that a police telephoned her last Thursday and informed her that they had found the remains of a female and that they need a relative to travel to the city to identify the items found next to the corpse.
Ms. Greene said that her son immediately traveled to the scene but did not report what transpired at the scene to her.
“My son did not tell me anything because he did not want me to take on too much. On Sunday, the police called me and asked that I go to the police headquarters to take samples to do a DNA (test).”
Greene said that she went to Eve Leary yesterday and after a rank took samples from her, she asked that she be allowed to see the items that were found at the scene.
“They did not show me anything. I had to ask them to show me the things they found and when they did, it was in a transparent bag that was already sealed. They refused to open the bag and allow me to identify the items,” Greene said.
The woman added that it was only after she expressed her dissatisfaction with the way the police were treating her, that she was asked to revisit police headquarters later yesterday and was shown the items.
According to a postmortem conducted at the scene last Friday, the victim was bound, stripped naked and bled to death after being repeatedly stabbed.
The slain woman was about five feet, five inches tall, appeared to be of African ancestry and was between 25 to 40 years old. She is believed to have died some three weeks ago.
And, according to sources, the missing teacher is about the same height. She also had a ‘rotting tooth’ which is a feature that was observed on the remains.
Goodman disappeared on July 6, last. She was last seen at the National Sports Hall where she took a few of her students to participate in the Inter-Secondary Schools’ Basketball Championships.
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