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Lethem woman found hacked to death in Mazaruni Backdam – suspect denies murdering her
By Shervin Belgrave
Kaieteur News – A Lethem woman was on Thursday last found brutally murdered along a track at the Papi Show Backdam landing located along the Middle Mazaruni River, Region Seven.
Vanessa Francis’ body being transported out of the Papi Show Backdam
She has been identified as Vanessa Francis, 27, of Yarankita Village, Lethem Region Nine. The woman had left her home some time back and had gone to the area to work. On Thursday around 10:00hrs, persons traversing the landing area stumbled upon her battered body lying face down in a clump of bushes along a small grass track.
Kaieteur News has seen photos of the woman’s corpse and it was a gruesome sight. Her blue blouse was pulled down to her waist leaving the upper half of her body completely nude. Her skin bore multiple black and blue marks suggesting that the killer might have beaten her too. Francis’ blood stained face bore a huge chop wound across the left side, completely disfiguring it.
It is also being speculated that Francis was also raped by her attacker.
According to police, the woman was last seen alive last Wednesday night with a man and was murdered sometime after then.
They have since arrested the man and he is being questioned at the Bartica Police Station.
However, Kaieteur News was told that the suspect, identified as a dredge owner in the Papi Show Backdam, has denied that he had anything to do with her murder.
He admitted that he knew the woman and had been with her on the night that she was last seen alive but was not the one who killed her.
Speaking with Kaieteur News, Commander of the Region Seven Police District, Dion Moore, said that the suspect remains in custody and investigators will continue to question him in relation to the incident.
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