The father of a 14-year-old girl found dead in her bed, in what was first suspected to be a death by suicide, has reacted with “horror” to the autopsy results, which found she was beaten and strangled.“To tell you the truth, I never beat my daughter or anything. The night before, no other time. Look my next daughter here. I have witness in the place here. Nobody never beat her (Andrea Francis),” Andy Francis told the Sunday Express in a telephone interview yesterday morning.His daughter, Andrea Francis, was found dead two days after receiving her Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) result.The autopsy performed by pathologist Dr Hubert Daisley on Friday revealed that Andrea died as a result of manual strangulation, blunt force trauma to the skull and right eye, and aspiration pneumonitis.On Monday, Francis told the Express at his home in Phyllis Lane Extension, Enterprise, that Andrea was found dead in her bedroom around 10.30 a.m. on Saturday, July 4.Francis said then that his daughter, who had no known medical conditions, went to sleep around 9 o’clock the night before.The next morning, she was found unresponsive by her older sister, Arielle, he said.He had said there was “nothing suspicious found on her bed” and that the police had not found “any marks of violence” on her body.He described Andrea’s last days with her family as nothing out of the ordinary. “She was normal. She was happy,” he said.In May 2026, Andrea sat the SEA examination, and was excited for her results two Thursdays ago. “She was real happy because she had passed for her first-choice school, Cunupia Secondary (School). She was excited to go to school,” he added.He said his daughter was a friendly and jolly person, who enjoyed singing and dancing, and had dreams of becoming a hairdresser.Francis said Andrea also loved her mother, who passed away in Guyana in October 2025 due to medical complications.Speaking to the Sunday Express yesterday, the father said “something was wrong”, as he had not yet been informed of the autopsy results.Francis said he was scrolling social media earlier yesterday, when around 11.30 a.m. he saw a post stating that his daughter was murdered.“I seeing it (the social media post on the autopsy results) but I never get no autopsy, I never get no cause of death, so I don’t know what is that,” he said.Asked if the police had told him anything on Friday, he said no.He said he went on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to the San Fernando General Hospital, where the autopsy was scheduled to be conducted.“Friday they told me they do the autopsy. They tell me they do it, but they never call me to identify no body. But they tell me they do it,” he said.“I wait there till about after 3 p.m., and that is the time they come and tell me the autopsy is done and they ain’t find no cause of death and the police will be investigating because (there) ain’t no cause of death,” he said.Asked if he was told that Andrea was murdered, he said: “No, them ain’t give me no cause of death.”Asked about what he thought about the autopsy results, as he wasn’t told anything on Friday, he said, “Well, like something wrong.”When asked if the police have contacted him, he said: “One done call me and looking for cameras around the place. He call me and tell me he coming by the scene. But he ain’t really talk to me. He come but he gone by two other house where it have camera.”Asked whether he was informed that he is a suspect in the investigation, Francis said: “Well, it looking so to me ’cause nobody ain’t really talking to me. They just doing their thing.”He said Andrea did not sleep alone, but on a different bed in the same room with her older sister, Arielle.The Express spoke to a senior homicide officer yesterday who confirmed no one has yet been detained in the matter. The official added that the investigation was active and enquiries were continuing.