Father believes girl found murdered in cemetery was victim of robbery

Rainella Benfield

The father of Rainella Benfield, the girl found murdered in a cemetery, is convinced that she was a victim of an armed robbery who was more than likely killed after resisting her attacker/s.

“My daughter was only 17-years-old, she hasn’t lived her life yet. She was robbed of her whole future and she was even robbed of the opportunity of having life beyond her own and I am very hurt and angry about it”, Rainsford Benfield yesterday told Stabroek News.

“I am just praying to God every day that my anger does not turn into rage because for me justice will not be served unless they (the perpetrator/s) experience the same thing that they put my daughter through”, he added.

The body of Rainella, a