17 year old, Glynes Bernard of Esher Road, off Waltham Park Road in Kingston was found with her throat slashed in Portmore, St. Catherine Sunday.

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }Glynes who was a student of the Institute of Higher Learning has been missing since October 31.

Head of the St. Catherine South Homicide Unit, Detective Sergeant Leighton Blackstock told RJR News Centre that the gruesome discovery was made shortly after 4 Sunday afternoon.

"We got information of a body seen in bushes off Lake Pen Road, we came and found the body of a female, a young girl would be about seventeen at the time when we looked, it was unidentified, we made some checks last night and made some contacts... we did our on spot post mortem and it was positive identified," Detective Sergeant Blackstock said.

On October 19, the body of a 17 year old girl was found in a state of decomposition at the Old Hellshire Beach in Catherine.

Investigators are still to identify the body.

Missing teen returns home

Meanwhile, the family of a 15 year old student who went missing six weeks ago is breathing a sigh of relief after she returned home Sunday.

The 15 year old who attended the Pembroke Hall High School had been missing since September 30.

However, a resident of a community in Mandeville called the police when the teen turned up at a house in the area.

According to Inspector Stephanie Lindsay-Clarke of the St Andrew North Police Division, the resident recognised the teenager from a picture published in the media and called the cops.

It's understood that the girl fled home after she became pregnant and was afraid to face her parents.