By LAUREL V WILLIAMS Thursday, March 6 2014
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DAY after he strangled his common-law wife at their home in
Carapichaima, Harold Ali died at hospital yesterday morning where he was
warded after he drank a poisonous substance shortly after committing
the murder.
Ali, police sources said, managed
to telephone his relatives to whom he confessed to killing mother of
four Marilyn “Maro” Murggan, 50, on Carnival Tuesday. Murggan, a CEPEP
worker of Wyaby Road off Waterloo Road in Carapichaima, was found dead
on the floor of her bathroom at about 6.15 am on Tuesday.
Ali, who lived with Murggan and other relatives in the house, fled the scene shortly after her body was discovered. Police said he later telephoned relatives telling them that he had strangled Murggan. Shortly after, officers of the Gasparillo Police Station found Ali lying on Victoria Street, frothing from the mouth.
The officers rushed Ali to the San Fernando General Hospital where the 50-year-old man was warded in critical condition and died yesterday at about 2 am, while under police guard.
Murggan’s sister Susan Sincere told Newsday that although other relatives were inside the house, no one heard any commotion from the couple. She noted that relatives became aware of the incident only when Ali’s relatives arrived at the house and told them that Ali had just called from a cellular phone to say he had just killed Murggan.
Police and ambulance personnel were contacted and subsequently took Murggan, a grandmother of one, to the Couva District Health Facility where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Autopsies are expected to be performed today on the bodies of Murggan and Ali at the Forensic Science Centre in St James. Sincere noted that she did know too much about Ali and confirmed that both autopsies are to be done today. Investigations are continuing.
Ali, who lived with Murggan and other relatives in the house, fled the scene shortly after her body was discovered. Police said he later telephoned relatives telling them that he had strangled Murggan. Shortly after, officers of the Gasparillo Police Station found Ali lying on Victoria Street, frothing from the mouth.
The officers rushed Ali to the San Fernando General Hospital where the 50-year-old man was warded in critical condition and died yesterday at about 2 am, while under police guard.
Murggan’s sister Susan Sincere told Newsday that although other relatives were inside the house, no one heard any commotion from the couple. She noted that relatives became aware of the incident only when Ali’s relatives arrived at the house and told them that Ali had just called from a cellular phone to say he had just killed Murggan.
Police and ambulance personnel were contacted and subsequently took Murggan, a grandmother of one, to the Couva District Health Facility where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Autopsies are expected to be performed today on the bodies of Murggan and Ali at the Forensic Science Centre in St James. Sincere noted that she did know too much about Ali and confirmed that both autopsies are to be done today. Investigations are continuing.
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