One week af­ter she was re­port­ed miss­ing, it is be­lieved that the sis­ter of In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Hazel Thomp­son-Ahye has been found dead.

The de­com­pos­ing body of re­tired nurse Her­mi­na Doughty, 71, of Trinci­ty was found at St Michael’s Road, Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

Po­lice say the body bore marks of vi­o­lence.

Doughty was last seen on Au­gust 17 as she drove her sil­ver Nis­san Wingroad car north along Dins­ley Road to­wards the East­ern Main Road.

Rel­a­tives be­came alarmed af­ter Doughty failed to at­tend a fam­i­ly mass at the Arou­ca Holy Trin­i­ty RC Church on Au­gust 18, and the Tow­ers Prayer Group meet­ing of the RC Cathe­dral on Au­gust 19.

Even though checks were car­ried out at hos­pi­tals, ho­tels and oth­er pub­lic places–ef­forts to lo­cate her proved fu­tile.

In a so­cial me­dia post short­ly af­ter, rel­a­tives ap­pealed for the pub­lic’s as­sis­tance to lo­cate Doughty and urged cit­i­zens to con­tact the TTPS with any in­for­ma­tion.

As of­fi­cers in the North­ern Di­vi­sion con­tin­ued search­ing for Doughty and her miss­ing ve­hi­cle, in­ves­ti­ga­tions took to them a house at St Michael’s Road yes­ter­day, where one man was de­tained in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter.

It is be­lieved the man as­sist­ed of­fi­cers with lo­cat­ing Doughty’s body.

Award­ed the Flo­rence Nightin­gale Award for ex­cel­lence in nurs­ing, Doughty had been in charge of the Blan­chisseuse Health Cen­tre for a num­ber of years. Un­til very re­cent­ly, Doughty had been post­ed at the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

Con­tact­ed around 5:30pm yes­ter­day, Thomp­son-Ahye was un­able to say much.

In­di­cat­ing she was at the po­lice sta­tion with two oth­er rel­a­tives, Thomp­son-Ahye said she had not been al­lowed to see the body so she was un­able to con­firm if it’s her sis­ter and was go­ing on what she saw on so­cial me­dia.

She al­so in­di­cat­ed the po­lice had not re­leased much in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ing to the dis­cov­ery of the body, be­lieved to be that of her sis­ter.