The move by the Government to secure the service of one independent homicide investigator from Canada to assist with the investigations into the the death of 11-year-old Adriana Younge has not received the support of the dead child’s family, according to their lead Attorney, Dexter Todd.

In an interview with News Source today, Mr. Todd said the Government has fallen short in meeting the demands of the family, and its repeated call for Adriana’s death to be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Scotland Yard or the Royal Mounted Police of Canada.

Todd said assistance from Canadian Homicide Expert, Leonard Mc Coshen – a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – will not suffice.

“They are not satisfied. They are not in support of that gesture at all to have a retired person, fair enough, comes with some form of experience. Their main concern here is that this individual is not going to be accountable to any particular body, what they were looking forward for is to have an organization or an institution in which the members can be held accountable. So, in this stage, where you take a private investigator, then the private investigator has to be accountable only to whomever his pay master is,” Todd reasoned.

Todd said while he is not there to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Canadian Homicide Expert, Adriana’s family desires an international investigative organization to conduct the probe. He said only then, will the family be assured that the investigation would be done at the highest standard.

“Because of how this entire case is being handled, there are concerns, and with those concerns the satisfaction is not there with the family in relation to this single person who is coming, who is retired, and he is not connected to any particular body or organization in which we can look at their own code of conduct, their terms, etc., and to say we are going to hold this institution to those standards,” he explained.

The Attorney said there is still time for the Government to seek assistance from a reputable investigative body to conduct the investigation.

Little Adriana Younge went missing on Wednesday, April 23 while visiting the Double Day Hotel with her family. She was found dead in the hotel’s pool the following day, triggering widespread protests.

An autopsy conducted on her remains by three international pathologists found that she died by drowning.

According to a preliminary report released by the Guyana Police Force, there was no evidence of sexual assault of the child nor any fractures or injuries to her body.

That preliminary report has not yet been handed over to the legal team, but Adriana’s family is adamant that her death was no accident. The family is awaiting both the preliminary report and the full report to have them reviewed by forensic experts.

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