One of the nieces of the 60-year-old woman whose head was found in a cooler on the roadside in Sennon Village, Siparia, said the grisly discovery had left the community and relatives horrified.

“I felt sick to my stomach when I saw the image,” the niece told reporters at the family’s home in Rito Ville, Siparia, on March 14.

Around 1.15 pm on March 13, police got a tip-off about a bag covered with flies on the roadside with a woman’s severed head. The head was inside a plastic cooler in the bag in a slip drain, opposite an incomplete structure. The victim was later identified as Joanne Estick, 60. The mother of one and the grandmother of three was a drug user and a hustler.