Police have arrested a third colleague in the death of 16-year-old Jerbiah Paul, since her decomposing body was found earlier this month in a village north of here by members of the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) after she had been reported missing since July 24.
The police said that the police officer, who will appear in court this week, will be charged with ‘perverting the course of justice’, the same charged that has been laid against a 21-year-old woman in connection with the death of Paul.
Last week, police officer, Joshua Hamlet, was remanded to prison, the second member of the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) to be charged with Paul’s murder. Earlier, 23-year-old police officer, Jean-Luc Langlais, was also slapped with a charge or murdering Paul, whose decomposing body was discovered in a precipice in Capuchin, north of here.
They will both reappear in court here on October 2, this year.
Meantime, the police have confirmed that an autopsy was performed on the remains found at Capuchin and are now awaiting the pathologist’s report as to the cause of death. DNA analysis has also been sent to a forensic laboratory overseas for identification purposes.