By Shuntel Glasgow
The headless body that was discovered by police in a state of decomposition in Catwalk, Port Kaituma was identified as 23-year-old Paulette Edwards of ‘The Hole’ Matthew’s Ridge, Region One. Police, who later found the head, are actively seeking Edwards’ fiancé, Silus (only name given).
This newspaper learned that Edwards, a mother of three and a sales representative at a Chinese supermarket, had apparently suffered physical abuse at the hands of the man with whom she had been in a relationship for about a year.
Holly Jeffrey, Edwards’ sister, told Stabroek News in an interview yesterday that Edwards resided with her father in an area called ‘The Hole’ in Matthew’s Ridge, but would usually travel to Port Kaituma with her one-year-old daughter to visit her fiancé, Silus. Some time in May, her father indicated, she left for Port Kaituma.
Jeffrey recounted that on May 25th she attended the flag-raising ceremony in Port Kaituma and saw Edwards in the vicinity. Jeffrey explained that she was excited to see her sister and proceeded to ask her how she was doing.
“When I see she, I ask how she doing and she said that she was going to the police station to make a report because Silus beat her up. She eye did swell up big and red marks went around the eye,” Jeffrey said.