Charges this week in Mahdia ‘body parts’ murder

Jul 26, 2016 News

Police are likely to institute charges this week against at least one individual in connection with the bizarre ‘body parts’ case at Mahdia.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday that police have sought legal advice to

Shawn Clarke and his wife Rachael

ascertain whether the two men they have detained can be charged.
Last week, police scouring an area between Mahdia and Konawaruk recovered bones that appeared to be from half of a hand, two legs and shoulders.
It is believed that the body parts are the remains of 47-year-old miner Shawn Clarke, who relatives last heard from on July 10.
Relatives appear convinced that the victim is Clarke after viewing a boot and part of a trouser leg, which were found with the remains.
However, DNA samples may have to be taken from relatives and from the remains for positive identification.
While police have declined to say much about the possible motive regarding his demise, investigators are reportedly getting a “bizarre story” from the two miners that they detained.
One of the suspects is said to have fathered a child with a female acquaintance of Clarke’s, who is currently pregnant.
There are suggestions that there might have been some animosity between the two men.
Clarke left his Lot ‘C’ Norton Street, Lodge home on June 15 for North Fork, where he had been working as a gold miner for over 20 years.
His wife, Rachelle Clarke, became worried after he failed to answer several calls on July 10. She had spoken to her husband at around 06:00hrs that day about some items she had sent to the interior for him with a bus driver.
Clarke reportedly called the driver around 20:45 hrs to say he was coming out from North Fork to Mahdia.
After calling her husband on July 12 and getting no response, Mrs. Clarke called the driver who said that her husband had not collected the package.
The woman said that she was told that her husband and a man named “Marlon” had left North Fork and walked to another back dam.

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