Canje hairdresser strangled, soldier detained at base

Donalesa Parks

An East Canje, Berbice woman was strangled and found wrapped in a bag along the Corentyne Highway in Number 1 Village yesterday and a soldier is the main suspect and was detained at his base in Georgetown.

Donalesa Parks, 29, a hairdresser of Number Two Village, East Canje Berbice, left home on Wednesday to head to Islington, East Bank Berbice, to meet with a client to do her hair, relatives told Stabroek News yesterday.

However, after her client, who was coming from Linden, eventually cancelled, Parks reportedly left and headed to Number 1 Village, Corentyne to meet with the suspect at his house.