DNA Testing Confirms Skeletal Remains Found at Madewini to Be Those of Missing Police Constable Quincy Lewis.
On April 19, 2023, a team of Forensic investigators from the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters were dispatched to an abandoned sandpit at Madewini on the Linden Soesdyke Highway, where human skeletal remains believed to be those of missing police constable Quincy Lewis were recovered.
In order to ascertain the veracity of this belief, the bones were later examined by a Forensic Pathologist and confirmed to be those of a male of African Ancestry between the ages of 21 and 40 with an estimated height of 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall.
However, due to the advanced state of decomposition of the remains, the process of positive identification was not possible without DNA testing.
As a consequence, samples were obtained from the close relatives of the deceased and were thereafter sent overseas for testing.
On completion of the testing process, the results confirmed the remains to be those of Constable Quincy Lewis.
Persons allegedly lured Lewis to their home on the East Bank Demerara, where he was shot and killed. They then transported his body to the vicinity of the Splashmin’s Resort on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, where they dumped it.
Lewis, who was a serving member of the Guyana Police Force since 2015, was stationed at the Agricola Police Station, East Bank Demerara.
This newspaper reported that Lewis was last seen alive on the afternoon of June 19, 2020, when he left in his friend’s car, PTT 7541, to report for work.
