Missing Teenage girl found murdered on Sunday December 21st 2014

POLICE are investigating the homicide of a female, believed to be in her late teens, who was found dead off a dirt road in the Gladstone Road area.

#The teen’s body was found lying on the ground at the rear of a white Dodge Ram truck with no visible wounds, police said. The body was found some 300 feet from Gladstone Road, in a well field.

#On December 18, police said a 17-year-old girl of Bradley Street was reported missing by her family. According to police, the girl was last seen on December 16.

#It was reported that thieves abducted the teen, who was sitting inside a truck that was stolen last week, police said yesterday.

#When asked if the dead teenager was the missing girl, Acting Deputy Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said: “I don’t want to speculate, but we are looking at all avenues, all missing persons are included in our investigations.”

#Last night, he said police had not confirmed the girl’s identity.

#Mr Ferguson could not say if the truck found yesterday was stolen, adding that police were still doing inquiries about the vehicle.

#“Sometime around 5.30 this afternoon officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit, acting on information, travelled through a dirt road just north of Dignity Gardens approximately about a mile and a quarter through the bushes where they discovered a white truck,” he said at the scene. “Just at the rear of this truck lay the body of a young female (who) looked to be in her mid or late-teens.

#“The circumstances surrounding this discovery (are) unclear at the moment, but suffice it to say that she is deceased. From all indications we are investigating a homicide and we are appealing to members of the public who may have information about this female who was dressed in all black, we invite you to make a report to police.”

#The teen’s death brought the year’s murder count to 118, according to The Tribune’s records, one shy of the 119 murders recorded by police in 2013.

#Last Friday, a youth was shot dead off Kemp Road.

#Police said the youth, 19, was on Carib Road when someone in a Honda drove alongside him.

#Two men jumped out of the Honda and shot the victim multiple times, police said. He was taken to hospital, but was later pronounced dead.