Sascha Wil­son

The fe­male sus­pect held in con­nec­tion with the dis­ap­pear­ance of Princes Town res­i­dent Kadi­jah Fla­ment is now be­ing treat­ed at the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal.

This fol­lows an in­ci­dent on Fri­day, cap­tured on videos that have been cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia, where the woman was seen act­ing er­rat­ic and had stripped her­self naked. The woman had been in COVID-19 quar­an­tine un­der po­lice guard at her home when her ac­tions were record­ed by per­sons near­by, who sub­se­quent­ly post­ed videos and pho­tos on so­cial me­dia.

Fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent, how­ev­er, po­lice were in­struct­ed to move her to St Ann’s for ob­ser­va­tion. An am­bu­lance sub­se­quent­ly took her to San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where she was trans­ferred to the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal.

Yes­ter­day, while most peo­ple were spend­ing Fa­ther’s Day with their fam­i­lies at home due to the State of Emer­gency cur­few re­stric­tions, rel­a­tives and vol­un­teers were comb­ing the bush­es and aban­doned struc­tures for Fla­ment. A search par­ty of over 40 peo­ple, in­clud­ing mem­bers of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team and Search and Res­cue T&T searched a wide area at Re­form Road, from Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um to Palmyra.

Hunters Search and Res­cue Team’s Val­lence Ram­barath said they stayed away from the area where the po­lice were search­ing.

“The fam­i­ly just want clo­sure. They wait­ing for that re­port (re­gard­ing the iden­ti­ty of the bones) from the po­lice but in the mean­time, they con­tin­u­ing to search. They said the po­lice did not com­mu­ni­cate with them with re­spect to that find,” Ram­barath told Guardian me­dia yes­ter­day.

De­spite do­ing foot and mo­bile pa­trols and aer­i­al search­es with drones, the search groups turned up emp­ty-hand­ed. The search groups al­so did search­es at iso­lat­ed and bushy ar­eas in Ste Madeleine, Princes Town and Debe on Thurs­day.

Ram­barath said they will be halt­ing their search ef­forts for now.

Of­fi­cers from the Homi­cide Bu­reau and Air Sur­veil­lance Unit have been search­ing the Re­form Road area near the Bri­an Lara Sta­di­um in Tarou­ba for Fla­ment and last Thurs­day and on Sat­ur­day, found hu­man bones in a burnt clear­ing where rub­bish is dumped. How­ev­er, in­ves­ti­ga­tors will have to re­ly on den­tal records, if any ex­ist, and DNA test­ing to iden­ti­fy the re­mains found.

Fla­ment, 24, went miss­ing on June 7 af­ter she left home to vis­it her daugh­ter, who was stay­ing with a friend. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.