By RASHAD ROLLE

Tribune Staff Reporter

rrolle@tribunemedia.net

THE lifeless body of a 57-year-old woman was found hanging from a cord in her home yesterday in what police suspect was an act of suicide.

Family members who lived with the woman found her hanging inside her bathroom.

Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander said foul play is not believed to be a factor in the woman’s death.

Shortly after 3pm, police received a report of her death and went to her Sapodilla Boulevard, Pinewood Gardens home.

Police said an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of her death.

If confirmed as suicide, it will be one of several such incidents to have taken place this year.

In September, a man in his mid-60s was found hanging by a rope tied to a tree off Shirley Street.

His body was found by his brother.

In August, another man, Delroy Anthony David Cartwright, was found dead in a similar manner by his niece.

He was found in the back of his Murphyville Road home, off Rosetta Street.

Mr Cartwright was believed to be in his early 70s.

In June, a 48-year-old father of three was also found hanging from the ceiling of a wooden shed attached to his Hillside Estates home.

The man’s wife said he was hanging from the rafters with an extension cord tied around his neck.

In all of these incidents, police have not suspected foul play.