Excessive bleeding caused death of US woman in Jamaica

The autopsy showed injury to Desiree Gibbon’s left carotid artery, stemming from the infliction of a chop wound to the neck.

The autopsy was conducted at the Doyley's Funeral Home in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and overseen by a forensic expert from the Organisation of American States.

An aspiring model from Queens in New York, Desiree Gibbon, 26, was found with her throat slashed in bushes along the roadway in Anchovy, St James.

According to the police, Gibbon arrived in Jamaica on the 20 October and was given a three months stay in the country.

Since her arrival, she had obtained a Tax Registration Number (TRN) and was actively seeking employment, investigators said.

Gibbon's mother told the media in the United States that her daughter had been staying at the family’s resort in Montego Bay with the hopes of making a documentary in Jamaica.

She told CBS New York that her daughter made friends on the island, and insisted that she would never go out at night alone.

“My belief is it was a cold, calculated, planned out murder... It wasn’t a random act of violence. It is somebody she knew, somebody she trusted, and somebody who betrayed her,” Andrea Gibbon said.

Desiree’s parents are expected to arrive in Jamaica on Friday to speak with investigators.