(Trinidad Express) Police now believe that Nadia Simms was lured to a man’s home with the promise of a job, but instead assaulted, killed and buried in a shallow grave in the bushes near his home at Quarry Village Siparia.
The decaying body that is almost certainly Simms, 25, was found yesterday, five days after she went missing. Police used garden forks to unearth her remains, before calling relatives to make the identification.
The body was found off Syncline Road, at around 11.04 a.m. by four men hunting iguana. The clothing on the body matches the items that Simms was last seen wearing, a maroon coloured long sleeved blouse, black pair of pants, and black pair of flat shoes.
It was a devastating end to the search first mounted by Simms’ family when police failed to immediately respond to their appeal last Saturday night when she did not return to the family’s Rampersad Trace, Clarke Road, home.
The woman had left earlier that day to meet with a man who said he could get her a job.
Simms’ aunt Farziah Ali told the Express that the family was heartbroken by the news and that Simms would have turned 26-years-old on February 7.
Simms’ mother Nafessa Simms, 57, had led the search for her daughter and was confident she would see her child safely returned. Contacted yesterday afternoon, she said: “I just got some bad news. I can’t talk right now”.
The suspect in Simms’ disappearance remains in police custody. He told police Simms spent two hours at his home last Saturday, before he accompanied her to a taxi that she left in. He has denied committing any crimes.
The body was taken from the scene at around 3.30 pm after her mother and aunt arrived. They will attend Thursday’s autopsy to confirm cause of death.
