MARCH 18, 2017
The body of Nyasha Joseph being pulled from the sea. (Photo credit: CNC3). Inset is the deceased policewoman.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Saturday March 18, 2017 – Following the discovery of the decomposing body of a 22-year-old policewoman who went missing last week, law enforcement officials have vowed to bring the killer to swift justice and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has made it clear his government will be taking whatever steps are necessary to resume hangings.
Joseph’s body was found by a fisherman in the Gulf of Paria near Port of Spain on Wednesday, six days after she disappeared.
It had been disposed of in a crocus bag, but it became snagged in the fisherman’s net and he brought it to the surface. He will receive a $25,000 reward that had been offered by Crime Stoppers for information about Joseph’s whereabouts.
At least three people, including a woman who is said to have had an argument with Police Constable Joseph days before she disappeared, have been detained by police in connection with the murder.
One of the men is the 36-year-old father of the female suspect’s child. He was reportedly romantically linked to the woman, Joseph, and three other women. The second man, 24, surrendered to police hours after Joseph’s body was found. He is being questioned in connection with transporting the body out to sea.
The cause of Joseph’s death has not been ascertained. An autopsy was inconclusive due to the state of decomposition, police said.
But Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams described the murder as “ barbaric and vicious.”
He stressed that those responsible would be brought to justice in the shortest possible time.
