By Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterCONSULTANT FORENSIC pathologist, Dr. Prasad Kadiyala, said the body of 36-year-old Ingrid Andrade-Gooden, a former administrator at the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC), had both human and animal bite marks when found in mangroves off the Norman Manley Boulevard in Kingston last November.
The doctor made the disclosure as he testified last Friday at the trial of 37-year-old Paul Gooden, former consultant at Yummy Bakery, Kingston, who has been on trial in the Home Circuit Court since Monday for the murder of his wife.
STRANGLED
The Crown is alleging at the trial in the Home Circuit Court that the deceased was strangled at her home at the Hartford Towers Apartment, 7 Sullivan Avenue, St. Andrew between November 6 and 7 last year before her body was found in the mangroves. The pathologist said on November 13 last year, he performed a post-mortem examination on the body at the Spanish Town Hospital morgue.
He said there was no flesh on the face and the jawbone was exposed. The right ear, the right index finger and right thumb were missing, indicating, he said, that they were bitten off by animals after she died. He said there were post-mortem abrasions to the back of the body, shoulder, lower chest and other parts of the body.
There were also human bite marks on the left arm as well as two spots on the left thigh and those teeth marks were ante mortem, which meant they occurred before death.
STRANGULATION
Death was due, the doctor said, to asphyxia, secondary to manual strangulation. He said the significance of food found in the stomach meant that the death might have occurred between half an hour to an hour after the food was eaten.
The fingernails were blue in colour and that indicated that the level of oxygen in the blood was low.
He said that was one of the signs of asphyxia, which was due to lack of oxygen in the blood. The body was discovered on November 8 last year and the doctor said that in his opinion death occurred between 36 to 48 hours before the body was discovered.
The trial continues today before Mrs. Justice Marva McIntosh.
