One person has been arrested over the death of Canada-based Guyanese woman, Roma Dookeran who was here on a business trip and was later found on the Leguan Island foreshore,
This is according to Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum during an interview with the Sunday Stabroek.
The Crime Chief stated that the investigation remains open and due to the sensitivity of the matter nothing else could be related about the case.
Dookeran, 68, was found off the Leguan seashore semi-nude on the 15th March, after being dropped off at the airport to head back to Canada following her stay at Perth Village on the Essequibo Coast.
Dookeran was dropped by her nephew to the airport for an American Airlines flight to New York and thence to Canada but never made it.
With her whereabouts unknown, a report was made and some two days later, police found the body of the woman. She was identified by her relative.
She was found facing upwards, washed up on the beach. The body was clad in a black brassiere, with what appeared to be a silver wedding ring on her finger and a silver chain around the neck.
An investigation was immediately launched. Police then found CCTV footage that showed that Dookeran never boarded her flight but instead took a car from the airport to a city hotel.
Dookeran later checked out and was picked up by another taxi driver who claimed that he dropped her to Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara and after that was unaware of where she went.
Later, an autopsy determined that the woman died from a brain haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head and compression to the neck.
Since then, the Major Crimes Unit has taken over the matter.
