Police are now investigating a suspected murder after the body of a 48-year-old female was discovered at her Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway home.
Dead is Edith Reuben, a housewife who investigators suspect was murdered sometime between 00:30 and 06:00hrs yesterday.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the woman lived with her reputed husband, who disclosed that they, along with several neighbours were consuming high wine on January 7, 2022, and all, except one male, left for their respective residences.
It is reported that she was last seen on the veranda alive at 00:30hrs yesterday, consuming alcohol when her reputed husband and the other male decided to retire to bed. At 04:00hrs, the male guest woke her reputed husband to indicate he was departing and after acknowledging, the husband went back to sleep.
Two hours after, he alleges that he awoke and made the gruesome discovery of his reputed wife’s motionless body hanging from a mango tree in the yard.
The body was uplifted and escorted to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where it was formally pronounced dead by a medical doctor and is now at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Police so far will only say that the positioning of the deceased’s body suggests she was murdered and her body placed at the scene. The male guest who overnighted has not been found for questioning as yet. Investigations continue.
