The family of Carla van Eeden have flown to the Bahamas under tragic and mysterious circumstances, after the 25-year-old was found dead in a hotel room.

Carla was a crew member on a yacht that appears to have docked in Florida, and had spoken about taking some downtime on Paradise Island, off Nassau, before making her way back to America.

Information remains sketchy, but here’s News24:

…local media were reporting that police found her body hanging by a cord at the back of the bathroom door of her hotel last week.

“Her family are a bit traumatised and upset and are not able to understand how it happened. They are extremely shocked,” [the family’s lawyer William] Booth said…

Her brother contacted Booth, a well-known criminal lawyer who has represented people involved in several high-profile murder cases over the past few years, to help police probe her murder and to give the family advice.

Booth said not much information had yet been relayed by authorities, and the cause of death was not yet known.

Some family members flew over to the island this week to get more answers.

They had asked South African authorities at the nearest embassy to meet up with them and assist diplomatically.

“The family are saying something must have happened to have caused it.”

Booth says that he is involved to ensure that local police carry out their work properly, and is looking into whether CCTV footage from the hotel can shed any light on what might have occurred.

Let’s just hope that the family finds out what happened, and with that some sense of closure.

[source:news24]