Five years on: Carly Isaacs’ family seeks justice

FIVE years after 17-year-old Carly Isaacs riously murdered inside her home while her father was asleep, it has become a cold case, with the family seeking answers while crime fighters call for a review of evidence and for witnesses to come forward.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA [e-mail]

Yesterday, queries to provincial police were not answered following an indication that the docket was being referred for an inquest in 2023.

The DNA portion of the investigation has since been completed.

Isaacs was attending a church service with her mother and sister on March 15, 2020, and had returned home around 9:15pm to change clothes and to collect her robe for the second service when she was violently attacked inside her Westridge, Mitchells Plain, home.

Her father, Alistair Isaacs, was asleep after completing a shift as a meter driver and told police he had not heard any noises or screams.

Later, he would wake to find Carly deceased inside the house, with her altar robe neatly placed onto the table.

Carly had been stabbed to death.