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Twelve-year-old Mercedez Layne never made the short journey home, like she was supposed to. More than a week after her murder, she will finally return to her Erin home—this time in a casket—before being laid to rest on Tuesday.
The nation was plunged into shock and sadness when Mercedez’s semi-nude body was discovered in bushes off a dirt track along Carapal Road, Erin, last Sunday.
The previous day, at about 11.30 am, a relative had placed her in a PH taxi at the corner of Lorensette Road to take her home - less than five minutes away. She never arrived.
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