Several persons have been detained in connection with the murder/rape of elderly Cove and John resident Millicent Prince-Cummings, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.
Persaud did not provide much detail but said that those arrested are persons who were known to be “out and about” at the time when the killing is believed to have taken place. He had stated that investigators suspect that a drug addict might have been responsible for the crime.
The bloody remains of the mother of one were found beneath an abandoned house last Friday on the public road at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara, a short distance from where she lived. A man who lived in a back house made the gruesome discovery around 05:30 hours as he was walking though the yard on his way to work. Prince-Cummings’s body was nude from her waist down and her head was badly battered leaving investigators to suspect that she had been beaten and raped.
Relatives had said that the elderly woman regularly took walks. They said that she was heading in the direction of Victoria and could have been attacked as she passed the abandoned house. It is believed that she was dragged beneath the building which is located next to a cemetery.
A post-mortem examination earlier this week revealed that she sustained blunt trauma to the head and had also been sexually assaulted.
A condom packet which is believed to be linked to the crime and which was found close to the body is at the police crime lab.
