Police say have no clue who killed Henry boys

– deploy dozens of ranks, with GDF helicopter flyover at the scene

Weeks after the brutal killing of the Henry cousins police on Friday said they have no clue who killed the young boys.

In a statement the police said as the investigation into the murder of Joel and Isaiah Henry continues, a total of 75 ranks drawn from Region 5, the Major Crimes Unit from CID Headquarters and the Guyana Defence Force led by Region 5 Divisional Commander and a Lt Colonel, and accompanied by Dr. Nehaul Singh, conducted a methdodical search  in the back lands of Nos 2 and 3 Villages between 07:00 hrs and 14:00 hrs on Thursday for anything of evidential value to the investigation.

Ranks on the ground also received aerial support via a helicopter from the Guyana Defence Force.  However, nothing of evidential value was found.

Notwithstanding, the investigation continues as the investigators pursue to exhaust all leads in search of two suspects and anyone else behind the murders, the statement added.

Autopsies of of the bodies of the two Henry cousins, revealed that the teens were brutally tortured before they died.
Speaking with media outside  the Memorial Gardens in the La Repentir Cemetery, where the post-mortems were conducted by Dr Nehaul Singh, Hughes had described the particulars as ‘pretty nasty’.
He said that Joel received 18 wounds across his body, seven to eight chops to head, and defensive wounds in both palms from a sharp object. It was concluded from those injuries, the 19-year-old fell to the ground, then he received a chop to his back that severed his spine. That chop was 14 inches x 3 and 6 inches deep.
There was also evidence that he bit his tongue, and his throat slit.
In relation to 16-year-old, his spine was also severed. His wound was 14 inches long, 4 inches wide and 6 inches deep. Isaiah received several chops to his head, and his throat too was slit, almost to sever his head from his neck.