Dog’s discovery of human jawbones leads police to decomposing body

Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

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Hu­man jaw­bones found by a dog led po­lice to the de­com­pos­ing body of a man in Mon Re­pos, San Fer­nan­do, yes­ter­day.

The shock­ing dis­cov­ery was made at around 5.05 pm by the Val­lence Ramb­harat-led Hunters’ Search and Res­cue team in bush­es about 200 feet off Wood­ing Street.

The body was clad in male cloth­ing.

A res­i­dent con­tact­ed po­lice some­time af­ter 9 am, af­ter he saw his neigh­bour’s dog with what ap­peared to be hu­man jaw­bones op­po­site his home. He lat­er con­tact­ed the search and res­cue team around 2 pm to con­duct a search, as he was con­cerned there might be a body some­where in the neigh­bour­hood.

In an in­ter­view af­ter­wards, Ramb­harat said a foul stench led the team to the body, which was miss­ing the low­er jaw.

The body was clad in blue jeans and a belt.

Ramb­harat said they had no in­for­ma­tion about any miss­ing per­son from the area and their records showed that no one had been re­port­ed miss­ing to them.

“We could ac­count for all the per­sons who went miss­ing in the last six months in the Mon Re­pos dis­trict,” he said.

Po­lice were last evening work­ing to iden­ti­fy the de­ceased and are await­ing an au­top­sy to de­ter­mine the cause of death.

Mon Re­pos po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.