Barnwell woman, 65, found dead in trench

Crime sleuths on the scene in Barnwell north removing the body from the trench yesterday morning.

A pensioner of Barnwell north, East Bank Demerara was discovered dead yesterday morning in a trench after she had been missing for a day.

Sixty-five-year-old Rita Fredericks of Twelfth Field, Barnwell north, went missing on Tuesday night after leaving a shop where she was consuming alcohol.

Her body was pulled out from a trench yesterday morning by police, who were summoned to the scene. No marks of violence were found on the body.