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Simone Hackett murder PI …Aunt testifies to identifying corpse
Shelly Greene, the aunt of Simone Hackett – the woman who was found dead with her throat slit in a canal at Cummings Lodge, Greater Georgetown – testified that she identified the body of her niece at the Georgetown 
Public Hospital Corporation’s mortuary.
Cleavaughn Hamilton, 30, of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara and taxi driver, Ranachal Singh, 31, of Lot 7 Good Hope, ECD allegedly committed the offence between April 16 and 19, 2016 at Cummings Lodge, Georgetown. They are on remand.
Green was called to testify by Police Prosecutor David Goodridge when the preliminary inquiry into the matter continued on Tuesday before Magistrate Alisha George at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Courts.
Also testifying was Police Corporal Patrick Benjamin, a detective, who is stationed at Police ‘C’ Division Headquarters, Cove and John, East Coast Demerara.
Corporal Benjamin testified to taking 14 photographs of the area where Hackett’s corpse was found.
According to reports, on April 16, 2016 Hackett left to retrieve a package that was sent by Hamilton for their son, from a person named “Dexter”. It was reported that the woman went missing one day before she was supposed to play the role of maid of honour at her sister’s wedding.
It was reported that Singh and the other accused allegedly picked up Hackett at University of Guyana (UG) Access Road on the evening of April 16. The woman was taken further down the said road where she was killed. The partially decomposed body of the 25-year-old mother of one of “C” Field, Sophia, was discovered in a trench parallel to UG road, at Fourth Field, Cummings Lodge on April 19, 2016.
It was reported that her throat was slit and there were what appeared to be two stab wounds to the back of her neck. Hamilton reportedly confessed to police that he killed the mother of his child.
Based on reports, the taxi driver transported Hamilton to Mahdia although he knew that the man had killed Hackett and dumped her body.
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