POLICE for a second consecutive day unearthed human bones and remains from two separate septic pits in the Mountain View area of Kingston, bringing to seven, the number of bodies found in what are obviously repositories for murder victims.

A total of five skulls were retrieved yesterday from the pits and government forensic experts determined that the victims were four men and one woman.

Three of the skulls — two men and one woman — were taken from the pit located behind the Jacques Road Community Centre. Assorted body parts, which appeared to have been burnt, a pair of size seven men’s shoes and a pair of women’s shoes were also found.

The other skulls, as well as a headless decomposing human body with one remaining thigh clad in red jeans, white boxers and a brown belt, were taken from the second pit, located on an abandoned lot at nearby 20-22 Fourth Avenue.

Forensics experts believe that the headless body belonged to a man approximately six feet tall and between 25 and 35 years old.

“Some of the body parts were there, just out, but I had to dig some of them… they weren’t deep but some of them were buried,” said the man who was given the task of climbing into the pits and retrieving the bones.

Yesterday’s find followed Monday’s equally ghastly discovery of the decomposing bodies of Yvonne Beaumont-Walters, ex-wife of PNP deputy general-secretary Linton Walters, and her cousin, 29 year-old Jeffery Beaumont in the pit at Fourth Avenue.

Beaumont and Beaumont-Walters were abducted on Friday night, shot to death and their bodies dumped in the mass grave some time over the weekend.

Monday morning’s find was made by the Crime Management Unit, which went into the area on a tip. In addition to the bodies, the police also found the victims’ Nissan XTrail sport utility vehicle on Thorbourne Avenue and its bumper in a playing-field at the Jacques Road Community Centre.

“It appears that these pits have been used for the disposal of bodies over a period of time,” said Senior Superintendent Anthony Hewitt, who led yesterday’s search.

Other detectives at the scene speculated that there may be more bodies or body parts in the pit.

Unlike Monday when the gruesome discovery attracted a crowd of mostly residents, police yesterday kept the Fourth Avenue premises clear of civilians.

A handful of residents, however, watched from a distance, their faces contorted by the stench emanating from the pit more than 50 feet away.

All the body parts and items of clothing were tagged and taken away to be examined by government forensic experts for clues that will hopefully lead to the identities of the victims.