(Trinidad Express) The remains of murdered Michelle Coudray, daughter of San Fernando Mayor Marlene Coudray, will be cremated in Jamaica and her ashes returned to her homeland.
Marlene Coudray said yesterday that a memorial service was planned for her second daughter at a crematorium in Montego Bay, but was cancelled last evening.
“I had already planned to have a memorial service this afternoon here in Montego Bay, but the remains of her body were not released to the family,” she said in a telephone interview from Jamaica.
The woman’s body was being examined by a second pathologist late yesterday to determine the cause of death. An initial post mortem on the charred body was inconclusive.
Coudray said a service is planned to remember her daughter in Trinidad on Saturday.
“As long as everything goes as planned, we will have a service in Trinidad when we return. I am hoping that the remains are released to us tomorrow so we can have the service here and do the cremation. The service in Trinidad is planned for Saturday,” she said.
Coudray is in Montego Bay with her companion, Larry Achong, and a brother. They left for Jamaica last Wednesday after an unidentified body was found by police two days earlier.
Michelle Coudray’s three children are in Trinidad.
Coudray, a 39-year-old school teacher, was last seen alive getting into a taxi in Montego Bay, St James, on June 2. She was reported missing six days later.
The woman disappeared two days after returning to Jamaica from Trinidad.
Her corpse was discovered in a burnt canefield last week Monday.
The body was identified using the dental record taken to Jamaica by her mother.
Coudray also gave a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample to police.
The taxi driver, the last person to see Coudray alive, remained in police custody yesterday. He was held last week Monday hours after the body was found.
Coudray death has been classified as an abduction and murder.
