Kevon Felmine

Po­lice are await­ing au­top­sy re­sults done on the body of 74-year-old Zori­da Enay­at Ali to de­ter­mine whether she was sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed by her at­tack­ers.

Ali, who sold plants at her home at Far­num Vil­lage, Guaracara, was dis­cov­ered with her head bashed on on Thurs­day evening.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Ali's at­tack­er broke through her front door and may have dragged her out to the back of the house where she was struck in the head with a brick.

When Gas­par­il­lo po­lice and Re­gion II Homi­cide re­spond­ed to re­ports of her death, they found her ly­ing nude in a drain at the back of her house with the brick on her chest.

Rel­a­tives said Ali stayed with her daugh­ter in Debe and would some­times go home for a few days.

When they dropped her off on Tues­day, she had $1,000 in her purse but when they tried con­tact­ing her on Thurs­day, there was no re­sponse so they asked a neigh­bour to check on her.

The neigh­bour jumped the gate and found her dead. When rel­a­tives ar­rived, the mon­ey was miss­ing from her purse and the house ran­sacked.

The back door and kitchen win­dow were al­so par­tial­ly burnt.

Po­lice searched for pos­si­ble sus­pects.

How­ev­er, no one was held and there is no mo­tive for the killing so far.

Vis­it­ing the house yes­ter­day, Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man, Hen­ry Awong said he was shocked to learn of Ali's death.

Awong said it was just last Tues­day he saw Ali dur­ing a walk­a­bout of his elec­toral dis­trict, when they had a con­ver­sa­tion.

"She was stand­ing in her gap and I walked up to her. She told me she has been a sup­port­er all her life since the days of the ULF.

"I was so shocked to hear that she was mur­dered last night so I passed to check on the fam­i­ly," Awong said.

Over the last cou­ple years, there were mi­nor house break-ins but he said there were no mur­ders. "Guaracara is a rel­a­tive­ly peace­ful area," he added.