Southern Division police are probing the murder of a woman who was yesterday found with her throat slit at a housing construction site in San Fernando.
The woman remained unidentified up to press time as police were still at the scene and checks with the T&T Police Service Missing Persons’ database had not shown any missing person report recently matching the description of the victim.
According to police, the woman was found by a welder doing a job at SK Singh’s Hardware around 4 pm. The man was performing a job at the company’s Cipero Road, Retrench Village, outlet when he walked to the back of the building to see a nearby river. While walking through the housing construction site on the way, he came upon the woman’s body lying face down in the grass. Afraid, he ran back to the hardware and alerted the workers. However, they did not believe him and went to check for themselves. When they confirmed his story, they returned to the hardware to contact the owner.
At the same time, an off-duty police officer was making a purchase and he contacted San Fernando police.
A team of officers, including ACP Cecil Santana, Supt Simbonath Rajkumar and Insp Don Gajadhar, were on the scene coordinating efforts to ascertain the woman’s identity. Rajkumar said it appeared the woman was murdered at another location and her body dumped there early yesterday. He called on citizens to contact the San Fernando Police Station at 652-5000 or the Regional III Homicide Bureau at 652-0495 with information
The woman was described as Indo-Trinidadian, 5’6” tall, of brown skin colour, with a short hairstyle, and appeared to be between 35 and 45 years old. She was wearing a pair of maroon long pants, plaid shirt and a silver-coloured bracelet on her right hand.
In an unrelated incident, the decomposing body of a drug addict was found in an abandoned house in Diego Martin yesterday with bullet wounds to the head.
According to police reports, residents of Francis Trace, Union Road, Richplain, Diego Martin, got a stench coming from the abandoned house around 10 am and after investigating found the gruesome scene.
Officers from the West End Police Station responded and found Jason Paul, 38, in the house. Police said Paul had been arrested in the past for robberies and break-ins. They added that Paul would sometimes sleep in the abandoned building he was found murdered in. Police said they had no immediate motive for his killing, which took the murder toll to 89 for the year.