BELIZE CITY—A post-mortem conducted on the body of Chryslin Gladden, 16, a student of Fairweather Street, Belize City, certified the cause of death to be bronchial aspiration due to multiple stab wounds to neck. The autopsy was conducted between 2:30 to 3:30 yesterday afternoon the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital by Dr. Mario Estrada Bran, police coroner.

Chryslin Gladden was found brutally murdered in the Lord Ridge Cemetery at about 5:00 Saturday morning. Her throat had been slit and she had been stabbed multiple times in the back, neck and in the chest. Cut wounds were also seen on her hands and her abdomen. She was found on the ground beside a tomb by a man walking on a footpath through the cemetery, who called police.

Police announced that they have arrested and jointly charged two people – a girl, a 17-year-old minor of Doris Brooks Street; and Clement Bol, 23, a construction worker of Grace Avenue, for the crime of murder.