The Tunapuna man accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend says that story is a lie.
“She too big for me to lift up. It not adding up, how I could run up behind she and pick she up and put she in the backseat of a car and drive to Tunapuna and no time she decide to jump out or pull up the hand brakes? Who open the gate to the cemetery, because that does be locked at night. This girl lying,” the man said in a telephone interview.
The man, who is alleged to have kidnapped Shevon Veris, 26, from near her La Horquetta home on Wednesday night, beating her and throwing her into an empty grave in the Tunapuna Cemetery, said the entire thing was made up. The jack of many trades, as he described himself, said he will be clearing his name next week when his main witness returns to the country.
The Tunapuna man admitted to once being in a relationship with the woman and to thinking he was the father of her unborn child. He also confirmed the two of them were at the cemetery on Wednesday, but said it was not by force, and he is itching to clear his name.
According to a newspaper article yesterday, Veris claimed she was walking along Plumbago Avenue, La Horquetta, around 7.30 pm Wednesday when she was grabbed from behind, blindfolded, lifted bodily and placed in a car. In the vehicle, Veris was beaten by the man, whom she later recognised as an ex-boyfriend and thrown into a grave. The man then fled when he saw a police car’s lights.
The man’s version of events countered hers.
He claimed: “She call me and tell me she coming to see me for me to rub her belly and she was planning to come by me on Sunday too. I say no scene. We was by the cemetery, I was washing my car there, me and another man. When she come I say let we go in the car and talk, while we was in my car talking she get a message and “baby” pop up. So I grab she phone and ask who is this and we start to scuffle.”
He alleged that after the scuffle in the car they got out, argued and fought again, but that time he accidentally poked her in the eye. This, he said, caused her to hit him and he dealt her a blow which “connect to she face”. He said the woman left and headed in the direction of the Tunapuna Police Station, while he and a female companion who was close by drove off.
The suspect said he was arranging to surrender with an attorney and organising to get his female companion and another witness to verify his story.
The T&T Guardian was told the suspect has a pending matter before a Tunapuna magistrate and police are planning to arrest him when he appears in court on that matter.