Four potential witnesses sought in pregnant-teenager murder case

The heavily pregnant teenager, 19, was found dead in the bedroom of her burnt-out flat in Broadmead Park, Liswerry, Newport, South Wales, on February 5. She had been stabbed twice.

Miss Grender and her 18-year-old boyfriend Ryan Mayes moved to the flat six months ago and they had decorated a room in preparation for the birth of their daughter Kelsey-May.

Police arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of murder.

The man was later named locally as Carl Whant, Mr Mayes’s second cousin.

Yesterday police were granted an extra 12 hours to question the former soldier, who worked as a doorman at nightclubs in Newport.

Police found two knives during an exhaustive search of the estate.

Both were sent away for forensic examination.

Now police believe four members of the public seen on CCTV on the night of the murder may have vital evidence in the case.

A Gwent Police spokesman said: “Officers investigating the murder of 19-year-old Nikitta Grender want to trace four people captured on CCTV from in and around Broadmead Park, Moorland Park and Pontfaen areas.”

The four potentially vital witnesses, seen in the early hours of the morning on Saturday February 5, the day Nikitta’s body was discovered, are being asked to come forward if they recognise themselves in the images issued by the police.

The four people, in three scenes, are a couple, a man, and a second man.

Officers are still at the scene and scenes of crime officer are continuing to make searches around the estate.