An autopsy which was conducted on the body of the University of the West Indies employee Marissa Edwards has revealed the unfortunate way she met her demise. According to reports, she died after she suffered blunt force trauma and was strangled with a length of copper wire.

Edwards’ body was discovered on September 26, in a drain along an isolated road in Waterloo. Her boyfriend 51-year-old Simeon Roopchand, 51 was found hanging from a tree in a densely forested area off McCarthy Street, Tabaquite about five days after Edwards went missing.

The autopsy was done on Monday at the Forensic Science Centre in St James.