{"id":1182,"date":"2018-02-28T18:28:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2018-02-28T18:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:28:21","slug":"gruesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"GRUESOME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8216;Little One&#8217; found in shallow grave<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>T<strong>he yelps of dogs fighting over a bloodied brassiere led a search party to the gruesome discovery of the decomposing body of 20-year-old Petrice Porteous on Sunday. She had gone missing some two weeks earlier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Porteous, affectionately called Little One\u2019, of Mount Peace district in Hanover, went missing on February 13. Following days of searching by the police, family members and residents, her body was found in a shallow grave in the neighbouring community of Kew Top.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that Miss Porteous, who was the mother of a three-year-old daughter and who worked at a call centre in Sandy Bay, was last seen after leaving home for work on February 13. Her twin sister Patrice said she last spoke to her sister that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe called me and asked if I had reached home and I told her \u2018no\u2019, and she mentioned that she was at work. I told her that it did not sound like she was at work, but like she was in a car and she hissed her teeth and hung up the phone,\u201d Patrice explained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Patrice said when she got home, she made several calls to her sister but got no reply. She regarded this as strange, as Petrice always wanted to speak with her daughter. However, the twin sister said she later received a call from her cousin indicating that Petrice was at her house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy cousin told me she came to the house and later she received a call saying her driver had come so she (Petrice) would speak to her and she left. We did not see her nor hear from her since that time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed to make contact with Petrice up to late Friday night, a search party was arranged by relatives on Saturday but after hours of searching, she was not found.<\/p>\n<p>It was the yelps of dogs on Sunday which alerted residents to the discovery of Petrice\u2019s body. The dogs were fighting over a bloodied brassiere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NOT A GOOD SIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police called us to identify her shoes, which were also on the scene and when we saw the body, she was wearing the same clothes she went missing in. It was not a good sight,\u201d Patrice said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019 father, Adolphus Porteous, questioned why someone would do this to his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe and her twin sister are my last children; they are wonderful girls. Petrice was a loving daughter; I don\u2019t know of her doing anything bad to anybody. Whosoever do this to her is so wicked. Why dem have to do this to make me feel this way right now?\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>The crime scene drew scores of persons, many of whom cried openly. They described Petrice as a quiet, hardworking woman, who loved her young child endlessly.<\/p>\n<p>One woman told the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong>, \u201cA wickedness this; the girl don\u2019t even talk loud, she only goes from work to home. God not sleeping, no sin goes unpunished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A police source said it would appear that Petrice was killed elsewhere and her body buried at the location. Also, a black substance resembling engine oil was believed to have been thrown on the body by her killer(s), presumably to keep down the scent.<\/p>\n<p>A mother and son have since been taken into custody as the Hanover police seek to unravel the mystery surrounding the death. The son is said to have been the deceased\u2019s boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Barrington Flemming\/Craig Oates<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Little One&#8217; found in shallow grave The yelps of dogs fighting over a bloodied brassiere led a search party to the gruesome discovery of the decomposing body of 20-year-old Petrice Porteous on Sunday. She had gone missing some two weeks earlier. 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