Three knife murders on seawall in seven months

In just over seven months three bodies have been found along the Georgetown seawall – victims of savage knife attacks.

Llewelyn Campbell

The unidentified body of a woman with a slit throat lying at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour is the latest to be discovered.

A police source has since told this newspaper that the woman may be “from out of town and she was perhaps usually on her own so her relatives haven’t missed her as yet”.

Some time during Sunday a family was given permission to view the body but later stated that it was not their relative. No one has gone to identify the body at the funeral parlour since.

The woman, found early Saturday morning, was of African descent and appeared to have been in her late 30s or early 40s.

The body, found between Celina’s Resort and the Russian Embassy turn, was clad in white short pants, a black leotard-like top, a yellow zip-up jersey and yellow ‘Gladiator’ sandals.

On January 18 the body of Llewelyn Fitzgerald Campbell called Elton of Lamaha Street, Kitty was discovered at the Kingston seashore behind the Guyana Forestry Commission. He was identified one day after his body was found by a man early that morning.
Campbell was reportedly on his way to visit friends living in the area.

And on November 25, 2009 actor Joel Fraser of Laing Avenue, Georgetown was found at the Liliendaal seawall by an early morning jogger.

In all three cases the throats of the victims were slit. Campbell and Fraser also bore other wounds about the body and both their cases remain unsolved.