Police still lack autopsy report of Australian found dead on beach in southern Mozambique

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Police still lack autopsy report of Australian found dead on beach in southern Mozambique

12:46 CAT | 24 Nov 2016

File photo / Elly Warren

Mozambique police still do not have the autopsy report of 20-year-old Australian Elly Warren, found dead two weeks ago at Praia do Tofo in the province of Inhambane. The victim’s father, Paul Warren, says however that he is convinced that his daughter was suffocated.

Paul Warren travelled to South Africa a few days ago to transfer his daughter’s body, expressing his intention to carry out a second autopsy.

The victim, Elly, who travelled to Mozambique to participate in a volunteer marine research program conducted by the Marine Megafauna Foundation, was found dead on the morning of Wednesday November 9 near a busy public toilet on Tofo beach.

At the time, Juma Dauto, police inspector and spokesman in Inhambane, told A Verdade that her body had been transferred to the city of Maputo to undergo an autopsy that would determine the cause of death.

Nearly two weeks later, A Verdade asked spokesman for the PRM Police General Command Cláudio Langa whether or not the autopsy report was available and what it said.

“Not yet. The experts are still working on the subject,” Langa replied. Pressed further, he claimed that there was “data that is still under investigation and we cannot make it public at this time. We are working on it”.

The Australian press has however reported that Mozambican authorities have told Australian Federal Police officials that the autopsy report on Elly Warren’s death was almost complete and would be released as soon as toxicology tests were finalised.

The Australian press said that the Mozambican authorities did not oppose the the deceased’s family’s wish to carry out a second autopsy in South Africa, about which Langa was reticent and did not say anything of relevance.

Source: A Verdade