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Police probe death of woman found on Stewartville seawall
(Kaieteur News) – Police in Regional Division Three have launched an investigation into the death of a woman whose body was discovered on the Stewartville Seawall, West Coast Demerara, on Sunday.
The deceased has since been identified as 38-year-old Chandini “Savi” Persaud of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara. A missing person’s report had been filed at the Leonora Police Station on Tuesday, November 18, after relatives said she had not been seen since November 14.
Dead: Chandini Persaud called Savi
According to police, ranks responded to reports of a body lying along the seawall on November 16. The scene was processed, and the unidentified remains were taken to Ezekiel Funeral Home pending identification and a post-mortem examination. On Thursday, November 20, a friend of Persaud visited the funeral home and positively identified her by a distinctive tattoo. Police say a post-mortem examination is pending as investigators work to determine the circumstances surrounding Persaud’s death. Persaud, who was described by relatives, as someone who suffers from mental illness, was last seen at her home on Saturday afternoon. Relatives of the dead woman who confirmed the sad news with this publication said that prior to her death, she lived alone and was employed as a teacher at a private school. A close friend of the teacher confirmed that she was suffering from “bouts of depression”
“Savi struggled with her mental health and lately her mental health hasn’t been in the best state. She’s been having bad thoughts …The condition she was last seen in was known to be fragile but she knows herself,” a woman identified as her friend posted on Facebook.
Kaieteur News understands that family members had reported her missing sometime after she vanished from her residence at Anna Catherina West Coast Demerara on Saturday. In a Facebook post, a family member of the woman said “I last spoke to Chandini on Friday November 14th, 2025 via a phone and she was last seen at her residence on Saturday November 15th, 2025 around 2:30 pm. Checks were made at the residence for her but she is not there. Her phone was left behind at the house. She suffers from mental illnesses.”
This newspaper was told that the woman’s only sister lives in the United States.
An alarm was raised when her sister tried making contact with her on the phone multiple times but she never responded; all calls went unanswered and messages unread. Multiple searches were then made at the residence trying to locate her but she was not there. Her phone, along with all her belongings was left behind. As a result, a report was made to the Leonora Police Station.
Prior to her body being positively identified at the parlour, missing person posters were printed and shared throughout the community and neighbouring villages. Additionally, a Facebook post containing information about the missing woman was shared multiple times across the social media platforms. The woman’s close friend in a post gave a brief account of how she suffered in silence. The woman [name withheld] explained that her friend was kind and intelligent but was deeply troubled. She liked to take walks around the community where she lived but would always return. When she was experiencing one of her episodes, she would hardly eat. “Mental health is real suffering…there are so many people suffering right before our eyes and we don’t even see it. We live in such a toxic world when a person cry for help they get label as dramatic, weak, attention seekers and yet we wonder why people don’t ask for help and often choose to shut up and suffer in silence.”
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