THE police say they may have to seek assistance overseas as they step up their probe to find the circumstances which led to the death of eight-year-old Tamera Laing, whose body was found last week in a pit toilet in Spanish Town.

Head of St Catherine North Police Division Superintendent of Police Anthony Castell told the Jamaica Observer yesterday that an autopsy conducted on the body of the child was inconclusive and investigators were awaiting the results of forensic tests.

Police said it was possible that investigators may therefore have to get further tests on the child’s body samples done overseas.

The body of Tamera, a grade three student of McAuley Primary School, was taken from a pit toilet on Thursday, six days after she was reported missing from her home in March Pen, Spanish Town.

A day after the gruesome discovery of the child’s body, two men, Clayton Parkinson, 33, and 24 year-old Tishawn Campbell, said to be the little girl’s uncle and nephew, respectively, were attacked and stabbed to death after being accused of the child’s murder.

Police said one of the men was found with the throat slashed and beside the body was a note, which read: ‘Children are our future, rapist must die’.

Superintendent Castell said the police have also stepped up their investigation to find those responsible for the killing of the two men.

Meanwhile, the man accused of hacking to death 84-year-old newspaper vendor could be charged before the end of the week.

Head of Kingston Central Division, Superintendent Steve McGregor said the man accused of the attack, Neville Lewis, 19, of Runaway Bay, St Ann will be charged after he is released from hospital.

Lewis was attacked and chopped several times by angry onlookers after he chopped to death Sylvia Sewell at her newspaper stall in downtown Kingston.

Lewis, the police said, was wanted for questioning by the St Ann Police in relation to another murder committed in the parish last year.