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Jul 06, 2008 Features / Columnists, Murder and Mystery
– A community on the East Coast of Demerara may hold answers to a horrific crime
By Michael Jordan
There is an area in Pattensen, Turkeyen, on the East Coast of Demerara, that may hold answers to the fate of a little girl who disappeared without trace five years ago.
And there is genuine fear that somewhere in that community lies an unmarked grave containing the remains of eleven-year-old Nordex Wilkinson. From all reports, little Nordex’s life was an unhappy one.
Her mother, Nadia Wilkinson, and father, Victor Simmions, had separated after an acrimonious relationship.
The mother lived at Bartica while Nordex and her two other sisters, Keasha, aged nine, and eight-year-old Kimberly, lived in Pattensen, Turkeyen, with their father, Victor Simmions.
Keasha would later tell detectives that they were constantly starved, beaten and even stoned on occasions.
It was on May 18, 2004, that little Keasha contacted her mother and an aunt, and told them a disturbing tale.
The child informed her relatives that she had run away from home. She alleged that a few days before fleeing the home, her father had come home while they were attempting to prepare a meal.
He had reportedly flown into a rage and began to beat them with a piece of wood. According to the child, the man had grabbed a pair of scissors and slashed Nordex’s throat. According to Keasha, her elder sister was bedridden after the beating and she was forced to take care of her.
She alleged that a few days after, she saw her father fetching the badly injured Nordex out of the house.
He reportedly arrived home later that night and told her that he had sent Nordex out of the country.
The child said that her father told her to say the same thing to anyone who asked abut her sister’s whereabouts.
But she also said that when some relatives visited the home and asked for Nordex, the father told them that the child had returned to her mother.
Keasha said that after her sister disappeared, her father took her out of the Redeemer Primary School, which they had attended, and transferred them to a school in Sophia.
The girl and her younger sister, Kimberly, were later taken to a female relative’s home at Yarrowkabra, on the Soesdyke/Linden highway.
Eventually, on May 18, 2004, Keasha ran away. She took a bus and traveled to Philadelphia, Essequibo, where she contacted an aunt.
Fearing that Nordex might have been the victim of foul play, the relatives contacted detectives at Timehri in an attempt to locate the missing child.
Detectives at Sparendaam Police Station joined in the investigation. But by now, the children’s father had also vanished.
Relatives placed photographs of the child’s father in several areas in an effort to locate him, but still he remained missing. Detectives also briefly detained a male relative of the missing man.
In June, 2004, police, apparently convinced that Nordex was dead, also dug up behind the family’s Pattensen, Turkeyen home in an attempt to locate the child’s remains. They found nothing.
Eventually, the fate of the missing child faded into the background as more sensational cases took precedence. To this date, the fate and whereabouts of Nordex and her father remain a mystery.
If you have any information about the whereabouts of Nordex Wilkinson and her father, Victor Simmions, please contact the police.
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