Mom awaits DNA result to claim body suspected to be son’s

Mar 28, 2017 News

Nine months have passed and the relatives of 53-year-old Elvis Ceres are still awaiting the DNA result taken from a body that was found among rubble when a house was burnt at Wales, West Bank Demerara (WBD) on June 30, 2016.
They are waiting on the DNA result to move on with their lives.
The police had promised Ceres’s relatives that they would get closure within three months. However, it will soon be a year and they have no idea whether the man is dead or alive.
It is suspected that the remains are that of Ceres since he went missing around the same time the burnt body was discovered among the rubble. The man had also worked with the owner of the property.
Ceres’s mother, Sheila Quinton, said that they have been waiting for months just to find closure but claimed that the police are pushing them around.
The woman believes that the burnt body recovered among the rubble on June 30, last, is that of her son. However, the police are claiming that they have to do a DNA test before they hand over the remains.
Samples have already been taken from Ceres’ son and a sibling to send for testing overseas.
Around 01:30 hrs on June 30, firefighters were called to put out a blaze at an unoccupied house located at Lot 1 Goedverwagting, Wales.
A body was later found among the rubble in the bathroom area of the property.
Ceres’ relatives have suspected from the inception that the remains found in the burnt property are those of the 53-year-old man.
His reputed wife, Beverly McTurk, confirmed that ranks had taken DNA samples from the victim’s son and brother in July last, to send to Trinidad and Tobago for testing.
McTurk said that relatives are awaiting the result of the tests so that they will be able to move forward with this matter. She claimed that since the samples were taken, they haven’t heard from the police as yet.
When the remains were discovered, residents in the area had assumed that it might have been those of a vagrant, who had managed to sneak his way into the property to seek shelter for the night.
However, it was later suspected to be Ceres. He had visited the property to assist in the installation of surveillance cameras and police believed that he might have sneaked into the house to spend the night.
McTurk said that she last saw the father of five, three days before the fire when he visited her home to give her money to take their son to the dentist. He informed her that he was going to work on the East Coast of Demerara and would return in a few days, but he never showed up.

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