Tobago pensioner murdered
By KARL E CUPID
Tobago Bureau Tuesday, September 18 2012
MURDERED: Tobago pensioner Gerald Holder...
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76-YEAR-OLD Tobago pensioner, who was described as being well-loved,
was chopped to death yesterday morning at his Roxborough Estate home by a
male relative who police said was mentally unbalanced.
Gerald
Holder also fondly known as “La Punjet”, a retired estate worker, was
pronounced dead on arrival at the Scarborough Hospital. A 31-year-old
suspect was nabbed by police last night and is now in custody. Police
said he is an outpatient of the Psychiatric Unit of the Scarborough
Hospital.
This is the second murder in Tobago in September and the fourth for this year. According to an eyewitness report, at 7.30 am, Holder was helping a young female relative to fill water in a washing machine when the suspect walked up to the elderly man and dealt him a chop across his head before running off.
Holder was rushed to the Scarborough Hospital where he was later pronounced dead on arrival. Relatives and villagers of Roxborough Estate were yesterday in a state of shock over the killing.
On several previous occasions, relatives said, the suspect had thrown missiles at Holder. Relatives of the victim and suspect were critical of the response they received from officers of the Roxborough Police Station whenever they made reports about his erratic behaviour.
“The Roxborough police never even came in the yard on occasions when we made reports to them. It is not the first time he has attacked the old man,” a female relative told Newsday.
“And watch them now,” the relative declared, as policemen lingered near the victim’s house. An autopsy is expected to be carried out today and Tobago Homicide Investigations Bureau detectives spearheaded by Inspector Ucef Alfred, are continuing investigations.
Two Thursdays ago, Veronie King, a 54-year-old mother of eight, was brutally attacked and killed while she was in her garden at Smithfield in lower Scarborough.
This is the second murder in Tobago in September and the fourth for this year. According to an eyewitness report, at 7.30 am, Holder was helping a young female relative to fill water in a washing machine when the suspect walked up to the elderly man and dealt him a chop across his head before running off.
Holder was rushed to the Scarborough Hospital where he was later pronounced dead on arrival. Relatives and villagers of Roxborough Estate were yesterday in a state of shock over the killing.
On several previous occasions, relatives said, the suspect had thrown missiles at Holder. Relatives of the victim and suspect were critical of the response they received from officers of the Roxborough Police Station whenever they made reports about his erratic behaviour.
“The Roxborough police never even came in the yard on occasions when we made reports to them. It is not the first time he has attacked the old man,” a female relative told Newsday.
“And watch them now,” the relative declared, as policemen lingered near the victim’s house. An autopsy is expected to be carried out today and Tobago Homicide Investigations Bureau detectives spearheaded by Inspector Ucef Alfred, are continuing investigations.
Two Thursdays ago, Veronie King, a 54-year-old mother of eight, was brutally attacked and killed while she was in her garden at Smithfield in lower Scarborough.
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