(Trinidad Express) Jamaican detectives disclosed yesterday that the burnt body found in a cane field in Montego Bay last week Monday is that of school teacher Michelle Coudray, the daughter of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray.
A positive identification was made using the dental records taken to Jamaica last week by Marlene Coudray.
Confirmation of the identification came through a press statement issued by the Jamaica Constabulary Communications Network.
The case is now officially being investigated as an abduction and murder.
And because an initial forensic examination could not give a conclusive cause of death, a second pathologist is being asked to work with the first pathologist to carry out further investigations on the remains of Coudray’s daughter, the police revealed.
According to the statement, Assistant Commissioner of Police Devon Watkis told Coudray of the finding yesterday.
Contacted by telephone last evening, Coudray told the Express: “I am with the police and I am working with them right now.”
Coudray could not say when she would be returning home.
Coudray’s three grandchildren are awaiting word on their mother, a close friend of the Coudrays told the Express yesterday.
Police have established that Michelle Coudray was last seen alive getting into a taxi in Montego Bay, St James, on the afternoon of June 2. She was reported missing six days later.
Two days before she disappeared, she had returned to Jamaica from Trinidad to take up a teaching job.
Mayor Coudray flew to Jamaica last Wednesday.
Coudray gave a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample and a copy of her daughter’s dental records.
A prayer service was held for Michelle Coudray last evening at Lions Club, Circular Road, San Fernando.
