Suspect in court on Nadia’s birthday

Instead, a man is expected to appear before a Siparia magistrate today charged with her murder.

Yesterday, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard SC gave instructions to Region Three Homicide officers to charge the 36-year-old man of Quarry Village for Simms’ murder.

Last week Wednesday, Simms’ body was pulled from a shallow grave in Santa Flora, a short distance away from the suspect’s home four days after she was reported missing after leaving her Penal home for a job interview.

CCTV surveillance video at a restaurant showed her leaving the establishment with the suspect.

The suspect’s own relatives would later confirm that Simms visited his home the very day (two Saturdays ago) she went missing.

When Simms did not return home, a report was made to the police the following day. As the search continued for Nadia , the suspect was advised by his relatives to give himself up to police.

A country-wide search by police, soldiers, cadaver dogs, relatives and hunters ended last Wednesday when Simms’ decomposing body was found in a shallow grave in some bushes in Santa Flora. Police were alerted by hunters who came across the shallow grave with sections of Nadia’s body protruding from the loose earth. A report was made to the police and a team of officers including detectives from the Homicide Investigations Bureau went to the scene.