Police are seeking a second person of interest in last Monday’s murder of Paradise teen Patricia Younge, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday.
It is unclear how this person has been linked to the crime.
Contacted yesterday, Persaud said that the only developments in the case are that Younge’s reputed husband has been released on station bail and police are looking for a second person.
Younge was last seen alive two Sundays ago when she left to view the Mashramani festivities in the city. The body of the former waitress of the Bettencourt Restaurant, on D’Urban Street, was found on Wednesday evening in the shallow grave after a search was launched for her. It appeared that she was raped before she was killed and a police source said that that from the initial investigations, the crimes seemed to have been committed by more than one person.
A post-mortem examination has found that Younge died of strangulation. It is yet to be confirmed whether she was raped. Relatives were told that they would have to wait between three weeks and a month for this information.
