RHON­DOR DOWLAT

A 23-year-old man who was re­port­ed miss­ing in 2020 was pos­i­tive­ly iden­ti­fied three years lat­er via DNA re­sults. His body was re­leased to his fam­i­ly last week.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice source, on May 23, 2020, a de­com­pos­ing body of a man was found at Bridge Road Cir­cu­lar, Mt Hope.

A miss­ing per­son's re­port was made by the rel­a­tives of Ma­lik Ram­sa­hai (al­so known as Doo­bie), in Feb­ru­ary 2020. Ac­cord­ing to his rel­a­tives, Ram­sa­hai, of La Canoa, San­ta Cruz, was last seen on Feb­ru­ary 6, 2020.

The po­lice source told Guardian Me­dia po­lice sus­pect that dur­ing the pe­ri­od he went miss­ing, Ram­sa­hai was mur­dered and his body dumped.

When news broke in May 2020 of the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­pos­ing body at Bridge Road Cir­cu­lar, Ram­sa­hai's rel­a­tives went to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre to iden­ti­fy the body.  How­ev­er, be­cause of the ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion it was de­cid­ed that DNA test­ing had to be done to con­firm the de­ceased’s iden­ti­ty.  An au­top­sy was con­duct­ed, and it re­vealed that death was due to gun­shot in­juries to the head.

Three years lat­er, Ram­sa­hai's rel­a­tives have re­ceived clo­sure and were able to bid their fi­nal farewell last Thurs­day, March 9, with the cre­ma­tion tak­ing place at the St James Cre­ma­to­ri­um.