Kevon Felmine

Body of 17year old girl found

Min­utes af­ter Leanette Al­fred made a plea to CNC3 Crime Watch host Ian Al­leyne to help find her miss­ing daugh­ter on Wednes­day evening, the teenag­er's body was found in an al­ley in Princes Town.The de­com­posed corpse of Sun­shine Al­fred, 17, of Or­chid Gar­dens, Pleas­antville, was found by Ron­nie Mooliesingh around 6.20 pm at Cedar Hill.Mooliesingh told po­lice he was walk­ing along Solomon Street when a foul stench led him to the trace. He found the body dumped across the path.

An au­top­sy yes­ter­day at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, by pathol­o­gist Dr Va­lerie Alexan­drov stat­ed Al­fred was knocked un­con­scious with a met­al ob­ject be­fore be­ing stabbed to death. The re­port said her body bore no de­fence wounds and there were no signs she had been sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed. It said the fa­tal in­jury was one of three small punc­ture wounds which pen­e­trat­ed her spine. Alexan­drov said the wound would have been caused by a screw­driv­er or a sol­id met­al in­stru­ment with a tip sharp enough to punc­ture the bone.

Alexan­drov, who watched Al­fred's case on Crime Watch on Wednes­day night, es­ti­mat­ed that be­cause of the stage of de­com­po­si­tion she might have been mur­dered short­ly af­ter she was ab­duct­ed on Mon­day.Al­fred, a hair­dress­ing stu­dent at the Civil­ian Con­ser­va­tion Corps, St Croix Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, Princes Town, went miss­ing on Mon­day af­ter she left her boyfriend Kern Wal­lace's home at Tar­o­dale, San Fer­nan­do.

Wal­lace told Al­leyne his sis­ter combed Al­fred's hair be­fore he watched her board a taxi on the Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road. Af­ter that she was not seen or heard from again.It was not un­til late Mon­day, af­ter re­peat­ed calls to her phone, that a man, claim­ing to be a taxi dri­ver, an­swered.Al­fred's cousin, Sade Si­mon, said yes­ter­day she be­lieved the "taxi dri­ver" was her killer as he re­fused to meet with po­lice and when rel­a­tives called again, he asked for mon­ey.

"We called her phone and some­one an­swered and all we were hear­ing was frogs, as if the phone was in the bush. Then a man picked up and asked: 'Who is this?'"The man asked her boyfriend if he was sure that she did not have an­oth­er boyfriend. He said the young la­dy and a man jumped in his car by the li­brary and that the man had a gun."He said the man told him to dri­ve and he said he did not know if the girl was shot be­cause his car was bloody."

Si­mon said while rel­a­tives were speak­ing to the man a po­lice pa­trol stopped and in­quired what was hap­pen­ing. She said when they ex­plained, a po­lice of­fi­cer took the phone and spoke to the man, who agreed to meet with them at the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion but nev­er came.Si­mon, who said she woke up on Mon­day night when she re­alised her cousin was not ly­ing next to her, sus­pects Al­fred's kid­nap­ping and mur­der may be linked to a stalk­er.

She said Al­fred fre­quent­ly re­ceived strange text mes­sages on her phone in which the sender told her he had seen her some­where.