Trinidad Guardian
by Gail Alexander
Today’s marks six months since the murder of Japanese pannist and masquerader Asami Nagakiya and police probing the case have interviewed over 20 people from T&T and Japan and are also awaiting the final pathologist’s report, the T&T Guardian has confirmed.
The Japanese Embassy recently expressed hope to the T&T Guardian that the case would be solved soon by police. Embassy officials are expected to meet with police again tomorrow for a monthly update, which has been taking place since the murder.
Nagakiya, 31, was murdered sometime between Carnival Tuesday (February 9) and early Ash Wednesday. Initial reports stated that she was last seen alive on Carnival Tuesday around 6.15 pm walking with a male companion near Picton Court, Newtown. Her body, still clad in a yellow costume from the Legends band with which she had played mas earlier, was found by a CEPEP worker in the roots of a large tree in the Queen’s Park Savannah (west). An autopsy found she had been strangled.
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