Published: Monday, March 9, 2015
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| Jessica Brereton, shot dead. Anil Lalmansingh, committed suicide. |
As
women across the world yesterday celebrated International Women’s Day, a
Marabella family were grief-stricken after man killed his wife and
himself in the presence of their five-year-old daughter. The
murder/suicide has left the families of both Jessica Brereton, 34, and
Anil Lalmansingh, 41, of South Oropouche, in shock as they were unaware
that the couple was in a violent relationship. Lalmansingh shot Brereton
dead before turning the gun on himself on Saturday night.
Police said around 9 pm, a man was at Princess Margaret Street, San Fernando when he heard several loud explosions. The man saw a little girl, around five-years-old, running towards him. The child told the man that her parents were dead, police said. He called the police and when they arrived on the scene, the officers found both left side doors of a silver BMW parked at Princess Margaret Street open and the bodies of a man and woman with gunshot wounds inside.
Brereton was slumped in the front passenger seat while Lalmansingh was in the driver’s seat. Police also recovered a revolver, believed to be the murder weapon, near the gear lever. Both Brereton and Lalmansingh worked at Iere Express Couriers Ltd and had been together for more than two years. They had no children together, but Brereton had two children—five-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy—from two previous relationships. Lalmansingh had an 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
At her Seaview Drive, Marabella home yesterday, Brereton’s mother, Veronica Noel, said her daughter broke off the relationship before Christmas, but Lalmansingh would not leave her alone. Noel said she never knew that her daughter was in an abusive relationship until yesterday morning when one of Brereton’s friend told her that Lalmansingh used to beat and verbally abuse Brereton. “We had a close relationship. She should have told me something,” said Noel.
All she knew was that Lalmansingh was always asking her for money. She said Lalmansingh would still pick her daughter up for work and sometimes they worked late. She said on Saturday around 8.30 pm, Brereton left in Lalmansingh’s car, saying she was going to Fyzabad to come back. She took her daughter because she said she was not going to be long, Noel said. Not long after someone called Noel and gave her the bad news. When the police contacted her, she went to the Homicide Office where the police handed over her granddaughter to her.
“When I asked her for her mother she said ‘Mummy gone in the hospital.’” Noel said she was waiting until members of church arrive to speak to the child further about what happened. Describing Brereton as a nice person who was always smiling, Noel said her daughter worked hard to take care for her children.
Meanwhile, Lalmansingh’s relatives were at his Mitchell Street home yesterday trying to come to terms with what happened. Lalmansingh’s older sister, Kim Bhola, said he was not a violent person and not abusive to Brereton. “Anil loved that girl. He told my sister he love she. That is why everybody is like, ‘What happened? What went wrong?” “Anil was never a violent person, he was a cheerful person and was always there for his family.” When she heard the news, she said she was both hurt and shocked. “My mom cannot hold up right now.”
She last spoke with Lalmansingh about two weeks ago when their mother came to visit them from the United States. Asked if she knew why he killed himself and Brereton, she said: “We don’t know? We don’t have no idea if they had a dispute or a quarrel?” As far she was aware, Lalmansingh and Brereton was still in a relationship. She said Brereton lived by her brother for a while and sometimes he would say by her (Brereton). She sympathised with the Brereton’s family.
“As a mother my heart went out to them. It is so sad. I want to give sympathy to them. I don’t know what went wrong.” Autopsies are expected to be performed today at the Forensic Science Centre, Port-of-Spain. Cpl Charles of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations South is investigating.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-03-09/child-witnesses-parents%E2%80%99-murdersuicide-abusive-husband-kills-wife-self
Police said around 9 pm, a man was at Princess Margaret Street, San Fernando when he heard several loud explosions. The man saw a little girl, around five-years-old, running towards him. The child told the man that her parents were dead, police said. He called the police and when they arrived on the scene, the officers found both left side doors of a silver BMW parked at Princess Margaret Street open and the bodies of a man and woman with gunshot wounds inside.
Brereton was slumped in the front passenger seat while Lalmansingh was in the driver’s seat. Police also recovered a revolver, believed to be the murder weapon, near the gear lever. Both Brereton and Lalmansingh worked at Iere Express Couriers Ltd and had been together for more than two years. They had no children together, but Brereton had two children—five-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy—from two previous relationships. Lalmansingh had an 18-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.
At her Seaview Drive, Marabella home yesterday, Brereton’s mother, Veronica Noel, said her daughter broke off the relationship before Christmas, but Lalmansingh would not leave her alone. Noel said she never knew that her daughter was in an abusive relationship until yesterday morning when one of Brereton’s friend told her that Lalmansingh used to beat and verbally abuse Brereton. “We had a close relationship. She should have told me something,” said Noel.
All she knew was that Lalmansingh was always asking her for money. She said Lalmansingh would still pick her daughter up for work and sometimes they worked late. She said on Saturday around 8.30 pm, Brereton left in Lalmansingh’s car, saying she was going to Fyzabad to come back. She took her daughter because she said she was not going to be long, Noel said. Not long after someone called Noel and gave her the bad news. When the police contacted her, she went to the Homicide Office where the police handed over her granddaughter to her.
“When I asked her for her mother she said ‘Mummy gone in the hospital.’” Noel said she was waiting until members of church arrive to speak to the child further about what happened. Describing Brereton as a nice person who was always smiling, Noel said her daughter worked hard to take care for her children.
Meanwhile, Lalmansingh’s relatives were at his Mitchell Street home yesterday trying to come to terms with what happened. Lalmansingh’s older sister, Kim Bhola, said he was not a violent person and not abusive to Brereton. “Anil loved that girl. He told my sister he love she. That is why everybody is like, ‘What happened? What went wrong?” “Anil was never a violent person, he was a cheerful person and was always there for his family.” When she heard the news, she said she was both hurt and shocked. “My mom cannot hold up right now.”
She last spoke with Lalmansingh about two weeks ago when their mother came to visit them from the United States. Asked if she knew why he killed himself and Brereton, she said: “We don’t know? We don’t have no idea if they had a dispute or a quarrel?” As far she was aware, Lalmansingh and Brereton was still in a relationship. She said Brereton lived by her brother for a while and sometimes he would say by her (Brereton). She sympathised with the Brereton’s family.
“As a mother my heart went out to them. It is so sad. I want to give sympathy to them. I don’t know what went wrong.” Autopsies are expected to be performed today at the Forensic Science Centre, Port-of-Spain. Cpl Charles of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations South is investigating.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-03-09/child-witnesses-parents%E2%80%99-murdersuicide-abusive-husband-kills-wife-self
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