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WHEN Carol Koeries of Corvus Close, Ocean View, looked out of her window on the morning of Wednesday, 8 February to see police vans at the Old Apostolic Church, she thought the church had been broken into again.

Little did she know that her 21-year-old daughter, Janine, had been found dead behind the church with a strip of curtain around her neck. She was tied to the branch of a tree.

Police are busy with an inquest, after they found that the scene was inconsistent with suicide.

But Carol is in for a two month wait before she can know, as close as possible, what happened to her daughter.

"When I arrived, the girl was sitting on her knees with a piece of curtain around her neck," says the investigating officer, Riedwan Isaacs.

"The curtain was loose around her neck. There were no red or blue marks. There were no deep marks."

The other end of the strip was tied to a branch about half a metre from her head.

Isaacs says other inconsistencies were found, but he still has to await the autopsy report.

Because of a backlog of cases, he says, the report will take about two months.

Carol is adamant that her daughter did not hang herself. Carol says suicide was not consistent with Janine?s view of life.

She says that when Janine spent months in hospital when she was pregnant, the doctor asked if she wanted an abortion. She told him, "I want to have my child, abortion is murder". Carol says it is difficult to explain to Janine's child what has happened. "Her child is only three years old. He keeps asking, 'Where's my mother, where's my mother?'."

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