Mutilated woman had come back from US to run boutique

Samantha Benjamin

By Roger Wong

Police have been questioning the estranged husband of the dismembered Buxton woman while an employee of hers remains in police custody.

The body, which was discovered at the Annandale foreshore last Thursday has been identified as that of Samantha Benjamin, 40, a US citizen and proprietor of a boutique in the Vendor’s Mall on Water Street. Her estranged husband positively identified her remains yesterday.

Relatives said Benjamin had returned to Guyana last August, intending to reside here permanently and had opened the