Man hangs son, commits suicide

A BELMONT man hanged his two-year-old son and himself on Saturday  night. Reports are that he was depressed over the break-up of a relationship with the  child’s mother. Residents of Lucien Road Belmont were horrified when around  9:30 pm on Saturday night, the bodies of Joseph George, 47, owner of Jades  Bread and Pastry shop of Observatory Street, and his son Judan George, 2,  were discovered hanging in the kitchen of their home. Judan’s mother, Diana  Paul, who had been lured by George to come to the house to collect Judan, made the  discovery. According to police investigations, George became depressed when Paul  refused his marriage proposal and moved out of the house and went to live at  the home of a relative in Laventille.
    
On Saturday night, when Paul arrived at Lucien Road off the Belmont Valley  Road, she called out to George and her son but got no answer. When she  looked through a window she saw their bodies swinging from rafters in the  kitchen. She screamed out and a neighbour broke down the front door and cut  down the bodies. The Belmont police arrived shortly after. Relatives at the  scene yesterday were shocked, “My brother was very cool and quiet,” his  sister Magdalene George, told Newsday “In his normal mind he would never do  something like this.” She said he had ended the relationship with Paul and  was moving on with his life. Paul was also on the scene yesterday, but remained in a closed car and  refused to speak to the media. Her father Alfred Sosa put a new lock on the  door and was confronted by relatives of George demanding to know what was  happening. He denied any knowledge of what could have led to murder and  suicide. He did say however, that his daughter had spoken to him several  times about fights with George and he had advised her but he never suspected  that it would end in such tragedy, evidence of which could be seen in pieces  of rope and a sandbag on the floor of the kitchen. Joseph had two other teenage children, a boy and a girl by a previous  marriage. Sgt Ramsoobag of the Belmont CID is leading the investigation.