Foul play has been ruled out in the death of New Amsterdam bar maid Roxanne Brewster, who reportedly fell off the gangway leading to a boat moored at Everton, East Bank Berbice early Wednesday morning.
An autopsy performed on Brewster’s body yesterday determined that she died of drowning, this newspaper was told. There were also no marks of violence on her body. As a result, two sailors, in whose company she was last seen alive, have been released by police.
Brewster, 34, of Lot 43 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, Berbice was found by fishermen with her clothes on and without any apparent mark of violence, on Thursday morning on the East Bank of the Berbice River.
She was reported missing on Wednesday around 2:30am, a short while after she was said to have left her workplace, the Rainbow Bar, in the company of the sailors, who were there drinking while their boat was being loaded on the bank of the Berbice River. However, the sailors told police that while the woman was using a plank to get to the vessel, she fell overboard. The sailors also told police that they had spent some time searching for the woman but were unable to find her.
Brewster was a mother of one.
