As three forensic pathologists on Monday morning prepared to conduct an autopsy on the body of 11-year-old Adrianna Younge, which was found in a hotel pool at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo last week, sympathisers blocked a section of Middle Street outside the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary.
They were beating drums, chanting slogans, and ringing a bell to back their demands for justice for the girl whose death has rocked the hearts of Guyanese across the divides of politics, race, culture, and religion. “No justice, no peace.”
A CT scan was conducted on Younge’s body earlier Monday before it was transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary for other aspects of the autopsy.
Two of the forensic pathologists – Dr. Glenn A. Rudner and Dr. Shubhakar Karra Paul – have been brought in by the Guyana government to conduct the autopsy.
They are being joined by Trinidad and Tobago-born Chief Medical Examiner of the U.S. State of Delaware, Dr. Gary L. Collins, who was arranged by the girl’s family and lawyer, Darren Wade.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) had said that the then Region Three Commander, Assistant Commissioner Khalid Mandall, was transferred and sent on administrative leave, and three other police officers were placed under close arrest.
The hotel owner and staff had also been questioned.
Monday’s protest for Adrianna Younge is the first of its kind in the capital city, Georgetown, since her demise on Wednesday or Thursday at the Double Day Hotel, where she and her family members had gone for an outing.
Her family, relatives, Tuschen villagers, and the wider Guyanese society are particularly incensed that the police had told the girl’s parents to leave the area outside the hotel.
The police force had also issued a statement saying its video surveillance cameras had shown the girl leaving the area in an identifiable car on Wednesday.
Mysteriously, her body appeared in the pool on Thursday.
The hotel and a house belonging to the hotelier were burnt. (Demerara Waves)
