Marigot:--- The suspect that was arrested for the murder of the General Manager of Rendezvous Tours, Lianne Burns allegedly confessed to murdering her said her boss Ian Gurr in an invited comment. Gurr said on Thursday he missed his employee and friend on Thursday morning when several persons who were trying to contact her expressed concerns. "Lee was a workaholic and when she could not be reached several persons became concerned." Gurr said.Lianne Burns he said "was a friend and an employee for 12 years and she was living with her boyfriend an Italian national Younese El Mami for some five months in one of my apartments in Agrement."
El Mami he said strangled Burns in an apparent act of rage. Gurr said when he woke up last Thursday he thought that Burns had gone to work since she is a dedicated worker, later he found out that she was scheduled to be off on that day, the day she was killed. "When I did not see her car, I thought she had left for work but it turned out that her boyfriend had left with the car." Gurr said when he started to look for Burns her boyfriend returned to the house and he asked him for Lee and he said he had taken her to work. "As I continued to search for her, I noticed the office door was closed so I did not think she was in there. Shortly after, I went into the office and when I found her body I called out to her boyfriend and he began acting emotional.
Gurr said he found the body at 1:45pm and he immediately contacted the Gendarmerie. Gurr said both of them were taken to the Gendarmerie to be questioned but by 10pm that same night the gendarmes returned to his house and arrested the prime suspect Younese El Mami. Captain of the Gendarmerie Sylvane Jouault said the suspect was transferred to Guadeloupe where he appeared before the prosecutor general. Jouault said they opened an inquiry on the murder; further information on the ongoing investigation he said can only be released by the prosecutor in Guadeloupe.
"The couple seemed happy and no one saw something like this coming," Gurr said. Relatives of the victim and her twin sister Lisa Burns is expected to arrive on the island this week.
