Barbados Police Continue Investigations on Decomposed Body Found in Well as Identification Process Underway

The Barbados Police Service is still carrying out investigations to identify the decomposed body of a woman discovered in a well last week.

On Tuesday, Communications and Public Affairs Officer Inspector Rodney Inniss said identification “will take a little while”.

On Sunday, April 21, emergency services pooled together their resources to retrieve a body from a well in Carmichael, St George. It took almost five hours for firefighters, lawmen and personnel from the Barbados Defence Force to recover the body which was discovered around 5:15 p.m. by a man who was exercising with his dog.

At the time, lawmen could not confirm if the body was that of missing Chefette employee Sonia Parris, who was last seen on Wednesday April 17.

When contacted, Inniss told Barbados TODAY police were working with a pathologist to identify the body.

“We are still awaiting identification. There are ways and means in which we have to do that; it will take a little while and as soon as we get the confirmation we will let the public know,” he said.

“It is mandated by law that a pathologist performs an autopsy and we cannot declare when it will happen; all of that is up to the pathologist. The pathologist schedules the [examination] and would inform us about when he would do what he does; we have no control over that.”

Inspector Inniss said the body was badly decomposed and unidentifiable.

“We have circumstances where we suspect it may be a particular person but we have to definitely prove it is that individual,” he said.