The autopsy on murdered mother of one Merissa Edwards has now been moved to Monday.
Her sister Lisa Cox told Guardian Media yesterday that the autopsy was expected to be done on Friday but had to be postponed because the police were not available.
“They had a shortage of manpower,” she said in a telephone interview.
Lisa said they are waiting for the autopsy to be done before they make funeral arrangements.
Edwards, 39, an administrative clerk at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus, was murdered by her boyfriend Simeon Roopchand.
She was last seen alive by her relatives around 7 pm on September 18, when she left her Freeport home with her boyfriend to go for drinks.
Roopchand went to Edwards’ home the following day around 6 am claiming he had come to pick her up for work and take her daughter to school. When relatives inquired about Edwards’ whereabouts, he claimed he dropped Edwards on the highway by a track which leads to their home.
Roopchand dropped and picked up Edwards’ 16-year-old daughter from school that day. He insisted he did not know where she was and pretended to be concerned.
However, Lisa Edwards said he began acting suspiciously when they told him that the GPS on Edwards’ phone was not collaborating his story.
Roopchand’s car was found abandoned in Tabaquite on September 20 and four days later his body was found hanging from a tree.
Edwards’ decomposing body was found in drain off Exchange Link Road, Couva, on Monday by members of the Hunters Search and Rescue Team and her brothers, who had been combing areas in Central and Tabaquite after she went missing.