The Homi­cide Bu­reau of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is still await­ing the DNA re­sults to de­ter­mine if the skele­tal re­mains found in Val­sayn on March 12 are that of Han­nah Mathu­ra.

While in­ves­ti­ga­tors had hoped to have the fi­nal re­sults by March 29, of­fi­cials yes­ter­day said they were still wait­ing.

Snr Supt Rishi Singh, who leads the Homi­cide Bu­reau, told Guardian Me­dia, “The re­sults from FSC not yet avail­able.”

The FSC he re­ferred to is the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James.

The skele­tal re­mains were found buried in a shal­low grave at the fam­i­ly’s prop­er­ty at Bu­tu Road, Val­sayn, sev­er­al weeks ago, af­ter a rel­a­tive al­leged­ly went to the po­lice and re­port­ed the hor­rif­ic acts the fam­i­ly had al­leged­ly suf­fered at the hands of a rel­a­tive.

The re­mains were be­lieved to be those of Mathu­ra, 18, who re­port­ed­ly died in 2017.

The dis­cov­ery cre­at­ed a pub­lic up­roar and a man­hunt was car­ried out for Mathu­ra’s fa­ther, who was ar­rest­ed days af­ter the find at an apart­ment in Tu­na­puna.

Along with the fa­ther, Mathu­ra’s moth­er was al­so tak­en in­to cus­tody and ques­tioned by po­lice. They were lat­er re­leased with no charges be­ing laid against them.