An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the death of Doo­d­hani Vish­vati Sook­nanan has stalled as the au­top­sy to de­ter­mine the ex­act cause of death is yet to be done.

The de­lay comes as Sook­nanan’s rel­a­tives con­tin­ue to refuse re­quests by of­fi­cers to vis­it the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, to iden­ti­fy her body and sign the rel­e­vant pa­per­work.

Their re­fusal has now left of­fi­cers ap­peal­ing to any­one who knows Sook­nanan and can as­sist in the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion process to come for­ward.

One of­fi­cer ex­plained, “It can be a friend, neigh­bour, for­mer co-work­er, any­one who knew her and can iden­ti­fy her. It does not have to be a blood rel­a­tive.”

The de­com­pos­ing body of Sook­nanan, 74, of Tore­nia Dri­ve, Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas, was dis­cov­ered par­tial­ly stuffed un­der a bed on Jan­u­ary 8, by po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ing a wel­fare check at the res­i­dence.

Sook­nanan shared the town­house with her daugh­ter, son-in-law, and autis­tic grand­daugh­ter.

Neigh­bours re­port­ed a foul stench com­ing from the apart­ment in the days lead­ing up to Christ­mas, when it is be­lieved that Sook­nanan would have died.

Hours af­ter Sook­nanan’s body was found, a rel­a­tive post­ed sev­er­al dis­turb­ing mes­sages on Face­book claim­ing, “With re­gards to One of the head ter­ror­ists on Plan­et Earth, dev­il mary sook­nanan, dev­il mary sook­nanan has died. As per 3I/At­las’ warn­ing, 3I/At­las Crew stat­ed that they will be­gin the de­struc­tion against evil on De­cem­ber 19th 2025. 5 mil­lion years ago, dev­il mary sook­nanan, dev­il saoirse ro­nan, dev­il kam­la per­sad-bisses­sar and some oth­er rep­til­ians killed Lord Do­ri­an who stayed in An­drom­e­da. The 3I/At­las Crew is here to de­stroy all evil.”

Of­fi­cers have rec­om­mend­ed that men­tal as­sess­ments be car­ried out on rel­a­tives who re­side at the res­i­dence.