Skeletal remains and clothing suspected to be those of Police Constable, Quincy Lewis who went missing on June 19, 2020 were discovered yesterday afternoon at the Madewini sandpit area, Soesdyke/Linden Highway and the police will seek the extradition of two suspects.
A police press release stated that some bones suspected to be the constable’s were found yesterday by detectives from the Force’s Major Crimes Unit.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told Stabroek News that at about 5:45pm yesterday, police found some bones suspected to be of Constable Lewis. Blanhum said that police were gathering evidence over the past several months in an effort to locate Lewis and as a consequence, two of the suspects when presented with certain evidence, decided to cooperate with investigators.
Blanhum said that he is not in a position to disclose the evidence, but informed that the police will be seeking to send samples of the skeletal remains unearthed for DNA testing.
Lewis’ death is believed to be linked to an affair that he had with a woman.
After the discovery of the remains and clothes yesterday, Blanhum said in the statement, “The Guyana Police Force will also use all legal avenues available to ensure that the other two (2) suspects are extradited to Guyana to answer to the allegations in relation to the death of the deceased.” He did not say where the suspects are currently residing.
He added, “I wish to conclude by once again recognising each and every investigator involved in this matter since it’s their hard work, perseverance and diligence that ultimately led to the breakthrough in solving this case and locating the remains of the deceased.”
The 26-year-old police constable has been missing since June 19 2020 and family members and the police had little to no knowledge as to his whereabouts.
Charlene Jordan, the mother of the missing man, had informed this newspaper that she last saw her son on June 19, when he left to go to work. “I noticed on [the 23rd of June] that he was missing… his friends come and ask for he and they calling he phone and he phone going to voicemail… when I call [his phone] he wasn’t picking up… then I know he didn’t go to work at all,” Jordan recalled.
The woman had noted that the last update she received from the police was that her son was seen on CCTV footage crossing the Demerara Harbour Bridge after leaving their Parfaite Harmonie home.
Lewis’ mother had said that she did notice something suspicious on the night before he disappeared that caused her to worry intensely about the disappearance of her son. “… somebody call this phone and ask to see if he home, and I ask ‘is who?’ and they ask if he home again and I ask ‘is who?’ After that the person cut off the phone… I jump up cuz I hear like a vehicle and when I look out the window I see like a dark coloured car pulling off, so I don’t know,” Jordan had recounted.
