Probe continues into corpses stored at unauthorised facility

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the dis­cov­ery of eight hu­man corpses that were found stored at Jaisouri Trace, Freeport.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Bhag­wan­deen, head of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, said the bod­ies were dis­cov­ered at a fa­cil­i­ty not au­tho­rised to store hu­man re­mains. He said in­ves­ti­ga­tions would de­ter­mine if charges would be laid. He said the bod­ies were stored by a le­git­i­mate fu­ner­al agency, which has since re­moved them un­der po­lice su­per­vi­sion and re­lo­cat­ed them to an­oth­er ap­proved fa­cil­i­ty op­er­at­ed by the said agency.

Snr Supt Bhag­wan­deen said the site was vis­it­ed by of­fi­cers from sev­er­al units along with po­lice from the Mul­ti-Agency Task Force and staff from the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty, Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Di­vi­sion and the Cou­va/Tabaquite Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Cen­tral Po­lice and the Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer.