Relatives of a 16-year-old girl who was found hanging from a tree at Kumu Village, Rupununi last month, say that they are convinced it was staged to cover the real cause of death and are calling on the police to conduct a thorough investigation.
They said that after constant visits to the police, a post-mortem examination was reluctantly done on the remains of Alana Peters on Tuesday before she was buried at St Ignatius Village. However, they are still not satisfied as, according to them, police are still insisting that the girl committed suicide and that there was no evidence of foul play.
A police official indicated to this newspaper that it
