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Headless skeletal remains found in Siparia

WEEKS after a woman’s head was found in a cooler on the roadside in Siparia, a man riding a bicycle saw a dog eating what turned out to be part of human skeletal remains on the afternoon of April 10. The body is believed to be that of 60-year-old grandmother of three, Joanne Estick, whose severed head was discovered inside a bag in a cooler at Sennon Village #3 in Siparia on March 13.

However, police from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region Three, said DNA testing has to be done to confirm the identity. A resident reported that around 5.30 pm on April 10, he was riding his bicycle along the Penal Quinam Road in Siparia, where he saw a dog chewing on a bone about five feet off the road in an overgrown area. On checking, he observed what appeared to be human skeletal remains and alerted the Penal Police Station.The victim was wearing a purple undergarment around the waist.

Last week, two men, Michael Edwards, 44, and his nephew Ryan Edwards of Siparia, appeared before a master in the High Court charged with Estick's murder.

.....AS of April 11, the murder toll stands at 110, following the fatal shootings of two men in separate incidents.

So far for April, there have been 12 murders: four less than the comparative period in 2024. Despite the slight reduction, the year-to-date total remains concerning. At this point in 2024, there were 157 recorded killings, compared to 110 for 2025, to date.

In the first incident, Omari "Big Foot" St Rose, 31, of Petit Valley, was shot and killed on April 10.

In the second incident, Rawle “Chubby” Jordan, a 42-year-old watchman at the Chiquito Water Treatment Plant in Upper Santa Cruz, was also shot and killed on April 10.

Murder toll....110

A 21-year-old labourer was shot dead in his San Juan home on April 9, in what police believe was a gang-related killing.

Around 7 am on April 9, police at the San Juan station received a report of a man found motionless at a house on Percy Hill, Febeau Village.

When they got to the area, they were met by a man who told them there was a dead man with gunshot wounds in a bedroom of a nearby two-storey house.

Police went to the house and found a body on the ground, next to the bed, covered with a maroon bedsheet.

They identified the man as Dwight Walker