Investigation fails to make progress; body has a tattoo of DJ Gayle San and an owl.
Investigation fails to make progress; body has a tattoo of DJ Gayle San and an owl.
JANUARY 20, 2021 — The investigation into a body found in Lake Thun in Switzerland is yet to make any progress.
The body of the unidentified woman was pulled out of the lake after divers spotted it floating in the water. The body was found in Lake Thun near Gunten, a small town in the municipality of Sigriswil in the Swiss canton of Bern, around 2.30 pm on January 17.
The body is yet to be identified. The cause of death as well as who was involved is yet to be determined, according to the local media.
In 2019, the Canton of Bern had recorded three homicides while the numbers stood at seven in 2018.
Experts from the Institute of Forensic Medicine have visited the site to look for forensic evidence.
The police have asked locals to come forward if they have any information related to the case. The angles of investigation include whether any of them had seen a vehicle parked near the lake in the evenings, or they had seen anything significant in the lake water.
The authorities arrived on the scene after divers spotted the body floating in the water and called the police. After pulling the woman’s body out of the lake, the emergency services noticed the distinctive tattoos on her back, an owl and the name ‘Gayle San’, the stage name of a famous Singaporean DJ who lives in the United Kingdom.
According to the police, the woman, whose identity is yet to be determined, was 20 to 40 years old. The police said they suspect her death may have been homicide.
They have asked the public to assist them in identifying the woman and hope the distinctive tattoos will help.
“I live right by the lake. We didn’t notice anything here in the center of the village,” a senior Gunten resident told local media.
“I find it shocking that someone was apparently killed in our quiet village.”
Gayle San, 54, is a DJ who lives in London. According to a music website, her career began in the early 1990s in her hometown Singapore. She started as a warmup DJ for bands like Kool, The Gang, Earth Wind and Fire, and the Commodores, at the Top Ten Club. In 1988 and migrated to London to pursue her DJ career in the UK. She started with record company parties, one-off guest spots and fashion shows. She soon rose to work at London’s Limelight Club, where she played along with global DJs. Gayle describes it as “the steepest learning curve possible”. She then began to experiment with techno sounds that were in vogue in Europe and the US. She pioneered in this music at Universe’s Legendary Final Frontier Club, at Club U.K. The club was later known as Universe Voyager. Gayle soon had a strong following of techno music fans.
Gunten is located in the municipality of Sigriswil in canton Bern and district Thun. Sigriswil has a population of 4,829 as of December 2019. Gunten is a major tourist attraction with lovely scenery, many places of interest for tourists and many activities for a great holiday. Lake Thun is a beautiful Alpine lake located between the two Bernese Oberland towns called Thun and Interlaken. It is a favourite destinate among tourists visiting the Alpine country and offers recreational activities such as jet skiing, speed boating, swimming among other water sports.
The violent crime rate is relatively low in Switzerland as compared to other European countries.
In Europe, France topped the list of the maximum number of homicides with 916 cases including 600 female victims followed by Germany at 813 with 433 male victims, in 2017.
Switzerland reported 45 cases of homicide including 25 males and 20 female victims. There were total 3,993 cases of intentional homicides reported in European nations in 2018, a reduction of nearly 30 percent since 2008.
(Edited by Megha Virendra Choudhary and Shirish Vishnu Shinde)
