Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice con­firmed yes­ter­day that they have not yet found the body of Joann Estick, but a sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with her mur­der. 

A se­nior of­fi­cer con­firmed yes­ter­day that the 44-year-old sus­pect was de­tained on Tues­day, and pig farms in the Siparia area were among sev­er­al ar­eas the po­lice searched for her body. Estick’s head was found in a cool­er on the side of the road in Sen­non Vil­lage, Siparia, on March 13.

Mean­while, a rel­a­tive said they were wait­ing for one of Estick’s rel­a­tives to ar­rive in T&T be­fore fi­nal­is­ing fu­ner­al arrange­ments.

A vil­lager told Guardian Me­dia that 60-year-old Estick hus­tled odd jobs in the vil­lage, clean­ing yards and wash­ing cars. She was last seen alive on March 12 walk­ing through the area.

The fol­low­ing day, (March 13) around 1.15 pm, Cpl Patrice and PC Cum­mings of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force were on pa­trol when some­one di­rect­ed them to a bag near a drain at Sen­non Vil­lage. In­side the bag, the of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a small plas­tic cool­er con­tain­ing Estick’s sev­ered head. Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.