Police Identify Body Found In Garbage Bag
Posted July 16, 2006 12:00 pm.
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Her body was found in a garbage bag, where it had been sitting for several days.
That was the determination by Toronto Police, who on Sunday identified the remains of a corpse discovered on Friday in a residential complex.
“As a result of the investigation we have been able to positively identify the deceased as a young female by the name of Yasmin Ashareh,” said Homicide Squad Det. Wayne Banks.
The 20-year-old’s remains were stumbled upon in the middle of the west end housing complex, and co-workers at the supermarket where she worked say she’d just been hired a month previous and made it clear she desperately needed the money.
“She was always on time, always anxious, wanted more hours,” said one employee.
“We’re in shock that anything like this could happen to somebody in this day in age.”
An autopsy revealed the cause of death as multiple stab wounds to the neck. Her body was left for a number of days in an area with many other garbage bags, which residents say would have been picked up sooner had garbage collectors showed up when they were supposed to.
Understandably, the incident has the neighbourhood shaken.
“I’ve lived here for 20 years and this has never happened,” said one area resident Sookdeo Ram.
“Where can you go now … anywhere in Toronto it’s the same problem.”
