Missing woman’s body found stuffed in canalBy Indarjit Seuraj Sunday, June 27 2010
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The canal in the St Augustine area where Tessa Fonrose's body was found. ...
A family’s search for a missing woman ended early yesterday morning, when she was found stuffed in a canal under the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in the St Augustine area.
Tessa Fonrose, 20, of Stella Street, St Augustine, was last seen going to do laundry at her boyfriend’s home, mere houses from hers.
When she did not return home Friday night, a report was made to the Tunapuna Police Station and investigators immediately picked up two male friends for questioning.
The family’s worst fears were realised when they found Fonrose’s body stuffed in a concrete cylinder under the east-bound lane of the highway, just before St Augustine Girls’ High School.
A post mortem tomorrow at the Forensic Science Centre, Federation Park, St James, will determine the cause of death.
But relatives are claiming she was murdered.
Her death sparked outrage from angry relatives who emerged from the nearby Stella Street, where Fonrose lived.
“He just kill my daughter and leave her in a drain? In a drain?” Fonrose’s father shouted, before looking to the heavens and clasping his hands.
Another relative shouted, “He better stay inside the jail. He safer inside.”
He was referring to one of the suspects who remained in police custody, reportedly a close friend of Fonrose.
Her mother Adonna Clarke-Fonrose was more composed. She, however, called for justice in her daughter’s killing.
“For me right now, all I want is justice for my daughter,” Clarke-Fonrose said.
She said her daughter was looking to pursue a career in music, after having travelled to perform with her schoolmates at St Augustine Secondary Comprehensive School and the Exodus steelband to Europe, North America and the African continent. “They just cut my daughter life short,” Clarke-Fonrose said.
She said she believed her daughter’s killing might have been caused by a “petty” quarrel from a relationship gone sour.
“She was just a quiet, loving person. She had lots of friends she used to play music with.”
Detectives from the Homicide Bureau office in Arouca are investigating.
