Prostitute arrested ..held in Muslim garb

THE prostitute who allegedly stabbed 14-year-old student George Junior Langford to death last Wednesday was arrested in Port-of-Spain yesterday.

Sgt Valentine Millette of the Woodbrook Police Station was due to charge the woman last night with murder. If charged, she will appear today before a Port-of-Spain magistrate to answer the indictable offence. Police said around 10 am, the woman was walking along Queen Street in Port-of-Spain when an officer, Cpl Grant of the Woodbrook Police Station, held her. Police said the woman was in full disguise, wearing full Muslim garb with only her eyes peeping out.  Lawmen said no one would have recognised her, had it not been for the watchful eyes of Cpl Grant. Police said Cpl Grant called the woman by name and she reportedly jumped.  She was promptly arrested and taken to the Port-of-Spain Criminal Investigations Department. Police said the woman did resist the arrest.

The woman is alleged to have killed Langford on the night of May 28, the day of her 23rd birthday, at the corner of Alfredo Street and Roberts Street, Woodbrook. Langford, a Second Form student of Tranquillity Government Secondary School, was reportedly killed after an argument with the woman, allegedly over sex.  The murder weapon was an icepick. Witnesses have told police that they heard Langford tell a woman that he had $80.  An argument reportedly lasted for about five minutes during which time Langford reportedly cuffed the woman, who attempted to hit him, but missed. The woman then reached in her purse for the icepick then allegedly stabbed Langford once on the left side of the chest.  He died on the spot. Langford’s relatives have since charged that the young man was not soliciting sex, but was returning from  cricket practice at the Queen’s Park Oval.