Yvonne Webb

A blow to the head is what killed Michelle Coudray-Greaves, 39, the Trinida­di­an teacher who went miss­ing in Ja­maica on June 2. A sec­ond au­top­sy per­formed on the body yes­ter­day re­vealed death was due to in­juries to the right side of the head, in­flict­ed by a blunt in­stru­ment. Coudray-Greaves was the el­der daugh­ter of San Fer­nan­do may­or Mar­lene Coudray. Deputy Su­per­in­ten­dent of the Ja­maican Con­stab­u­lary Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Net­work, Steve Brown, in a re­lease con­firmed the find­ings of the sec­ond au­top­sy, which was done yes­ter­day. He said homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­tin­u­ing in­to the death of Coudray-Greaves, whose burnt body was dis­cov­ered by farm­ers in a cane­field in Mon­tego Bay on June 11.

The body of the moth­er of three was iden­ti­fied by den­tal records which were sup­plied by Coudray. A taxi dri­ver, whose car Coudray-Greaves was last seen en­ter­ing, is the on­ly per­son of in­ter­est in cus­tody at this time, Brown con­firmed. The body was re­leased to the Coudray fam­i­ly around 11 am yes­ter­day, af­ter which the first of two fu­ner­al ser­vices and a cre­ma­tion was held at the St James Memo­r­i­al Chapel, Dove­cot. News ed­i­tor of the Glean­er news­pa­per, Adri­an Frater, said Coudray spoke at the ser­vice which was at­tend­ed by friends and rel­a­tives of her de­ceased daugh­ter. "What hap­pened to my daugh­ter is not a re­flec­tion on Ja­maica. It could have hap­pened any­where else," she told the con­gre­ga­tion, which in­clud­ed T&T High Com­mis­sion­er Dr Iva Gloudon and Coudray-Greaves' fa­ther Mervyn Coudray. Frater said the may­or was pleased with the Ja­maican hos­pi­tal­i­ty ex­tend­ed to her and now un­der­stood why her daugh­ter was so in love with Ja­maica.

The ser­vice was con­duct­ed by Pas­tor Marc Mullings, who is al­so a po­lice of­fi­cer. Frater said Mullings al­so pre­sent­ed Coudray with the urn con­tain­ing the ash­es of her daugh­ter, who was ear­li­er cre­mat­ed at the chapel. Coudray and oth­er rel­a­tives who flew in for the ser­vice left Ja­maica short­ly af­ter and were ex­pect­ed to ar­rive at Pi­ar­co Air­port at around 11 pm last night. A sec­ond fu­ner­al will take place at 2 pm to­mor­row at Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help RC Church, Har­ris Prom­e­nade, San Fer­nan­do. Af­ter­wards the ash­es will be in­terred at the Par­adise Ceme­tery, San Fer­nan­do. The Prime Min­is­ter and mem­bers of her Cab­i­net are ex­pect­ed to at­tend.