Woman found dead with chop to head at Papi Landing

Police in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) are investigating the murder of a 36-year-old woman, whose lifeless body was found with a chop wound to the head last Wednesday morning and a man, with whom she was last seen, has been arrested.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) identified the dead woman as Vanessa Rodrigues, called ‘Chinee girl,’ 36, a resident of Lethem.

In a statement, the GPF confirmed that an investigation is ongoing into the woman’s murder, which occurred sometime between last Tuesday and Wednesday at Papi Landing, Middle Mazaruni River.