The Cold Case Unit of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has closed the case re­lat­ing to the death of Asa­mi Na­gakiya, the Japan­ese pan­nist whose body was found in the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on Feb­ru­ary 10, 2016. A post-mortem re­vealed that she was stran­gled.

In a re­lease the TTPS said fol­low­ing a re­view of the ev­i­dence on Thurs­day, Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard ex­pressed sat­is­fac­tion that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was thor­ough­ly done. He con­clud­ed that all the ev­i­dence point­ed to one sus­pect, David Allen, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing on De­cem­ber 12, 2016, in Wood­brook.

The DPP ad­vised that the mat­ter be closed.

Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (In­ves­ti­ga­tions and In­tel­li­gence), Mc Don­ald Ja­cob, ex­pressed his ap­pre­ci­a­tion to the Cold Case Unit of the Homi­cide Bu­reau in deal­ing with this mat­ter. He said the Cold Case Unit, which was formed to deal with old cas­es, will be con­tin­u­ing their quest to solve oth­er out­stand­ing cold cas­es.

Allen, 31, of En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, posed as a woman, com­plete with make­up and tight-fit­ted cloth­ing, when he at­tempt­ed to rob Stir Fry King Restau­rant and Casi­no Pei Da Xiu, Ari­api­ta Av­enue, Wood­brook. How­ev­er, he was con­front­ed and shot in an ex­change of gun­fire with an off-du­ty po­lice of­fi­cer while at­tempt­ing to es­cape.

In 2004, Allen, then 18, al­so dis­guised him­self as a va­grant and at­tempt­ed to rob a TSTT tech­ni­cian as he was leav­ing 51 De­grees night­club at Cipri­ani Boule­vard, Port-of-Spain. There was a strug­gle and the tech­ni­cian was shot in the stom­ach and lat­er died at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. He was charged with mur­der.

In 2012, Allen plead­ed guilty to the less­er charge of manslaugh­ter. The State ac­cept­ed his guilty plea and he was sen­tenced to four years and six months for the of­fence, in ad­di­tion to the eight years he spent await­ing tri­al.