HOMICIDE Detective were up to press time yesterday still trying to ascertain the identities of a woman and a male infant whose bodies were found in bushes at Bowen’s Gate in the Mocho Mountains, Clarendon, on Friday.

A passer-by stumbled upon the bodies on a lonely road, which residents of the area say was built by a bauxite company.

But when the police and residents converged on the scene, no one could identify the bodies, and it was hardly unlikely that the police would release photographs that might assist with the identification as these might be in poor taste.

“Those picture might be too gory for the press. We can’t release them,” Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Serious and Organised Crime, Les Green said.

There was a small blotch of blood at the spot where the woman and child were found. Residents, who viewed the bodies, said the child’s neck appeared broken, as it was skewed at an awkward angle.

“The pickney neck never look good. It come in like them break the poor pickney neck,” one resident told the Sunday Observer.

“It doesn’t seem like they are from around here because no one knows them and, in this area, everybody knows everybody,” a police officer at the Mocho Police Station told the Sunday Observer.

Police say the woman was dressed in a green skirt. They described her body as being about 170 centimetres long and of dark complexion. The body had multiple stab wounds.

The child, believed to be about three-years-old, was clad in a multi-coloured, long sleeved shirt and a plaid pair of pants.

Yesterday, residents of Bowen’s Gate and other nearby districts were at a loss. The residents said they felt the bodies were dumped at the deserted location by outsiders.

“We feel is dump them dump the bodies there. This is not a road that people use often,” an elderly farmer told the Sunday Observer.