Homicide detectives are expected to approach the Director of Public Prosecutions today for instructions in the murders of Dominican national Chriss Brewster and pensioner Peter Felix.
The 24-year-old suspect, a close friend of Brewster for the past month, was held one day after the charred remains of the 30-year-old mother of two was found at her Wellington Street, Maracas St Joseph home last Monday. An autopsy revealed that Brewster’s throat was slit before her apartment was set ablaze.
Felix, who used a wheelchair to move around, died from smoke inhalation, police said.
Relatives of Brewster, who arrived in the country last week to claim her body, are unsure whether she will be buried in her homeland or in Trinidad since her family lost everything when Hurricane Maria devastated that island.
In an unrelated case, a 33-year-old Piarco woman will appear before an Arima Magistrate charged with the murder of 40-year-old Sherwin Lela.
Lela, a police Constable, died on September 11, days after he was burnt at his Oropune Gardens, Piarco home, on September 3. Reports are that around 1.15 am, the woman allegedly was at Lela’s home with her six-year-old son. Following an argument Lela ordered the woman out of his home and later an explosion was heard followed by screams.
The woman and child escaped the apartment by jumping through a window.