An elderly T&T national resident in Canada, who has been returning home every winter for the past several years, was tied up, gagged and beaten to death at his Upper Bournes Road, St James, home sometime between Tuesday night and yesterday morning.
But police believe 72-year-old George Hinkson’s attacker/attackers may have come to rob him and did not intend to murder him. His body was found by relatives around 9 am yesterday, but they could not say how long he may have been there before being found.
Speaking with the media at the scene was Hinkson’s cousin Maureen Johnson, who said she was supposed to have telephoned him Tuesday night but got caught up with her daily routine and forgot.
Johnson said her cousin was the type who, although he kept to himself during his returns from Canada, was friendly and well liked. She added that her cousin’s only fault was that he was a “no-nonsense man.”
Up to late yesterday, crime scene officials were canvassing the area searching for clues that would lead to the man’s killer/killers. St James and Homicide Bureau officers are continuing investigations. In two unrelated incidents, two men will appear in different courts each charged with murder today.
According to police, Michael Dematas, 25, a PH driver of Maracas Royal Road, Maracas, St. Joseph, was charged with murdering 31-year-old labourer Keston Charles.
Dematas was held shortly after Charles and his childhood friend Anton Du Four, 40, were murdered at Guatarra Hill, off Maracas Royal Road. Dematas told police he was hired by men who went to kill the two men, but had no part to play in their deaths. Charles and Du Four, also a labourer, were found on March 21, 2016, shot to death on the roadway.
Dematas will appear before the Tunapuna Magistrates Court for Charles’ murder, while police continue their investigation into Du Four’s murder. Dematas was charged by Cpl Joel Maxime of the Homicide Investigation Bureau, Region 2.
In the other case, Jamal Mohammed Khan, 25, of Bagatelle Road, San Juan, will appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate charged with the November 21, 2015, murder of labourer Andre McLeod. McLeod was killed near his Sunshine Avenue home. Khan was charged by Cpl Jason Dejean of the San Juan Police Station.