Carenage woman stabbed to death

The deceased has been identified as Andrea Edwards, 37, and her husband has been identified as Rawle Savory, 42.

Newsday understands that at about 2 am on Thursday, Edwards and Savory were at their Moya Trace Carenage home, when, an unknown assailant broke into the couple’s bedroom and stabbed the couple repeatedly before running out of the house.

Newsday understands that up to press time, Savory was still in a critical condition, and officers of the Western Division Task Force have embarked on a manhunt for the alleged assailant.

Sophia Edwards, Andrea’s sister, told reporters yesterday that Andrea was a hard-working and ambitious woman, who would give anything that she had to help her friends and family.

“She was a very loving and giving and hard-working person,” said Sophia “She recently got a job on Mucurapo Road (Port of Spain) as a cook, and she worked there from Sunday to Sunday. She had a real sweet hand. She could have cooked anything. Words cannot explain how I feel right now. We always had our ups and downs but we always came back to each other.” Sophia said Andrea would always encourage her to do the right thing and to believe in herself.

“This is such a nightmare! You see things like this on the TV and hear it on the news, and you never wish that it reaches your doorstep, but today my worse fears have been realised. I would just like to find out the cause of this.” Edwards’ death brings the tally of murders to six in 48 hours. On Wednesday, two brothers were killed in Diego Martin, another man was shot dead at his home in Point Fortin. During the course of Wednesday night, other murders were committed in Moruga and Gasparillo.

The murder toll for the year now stands at 289.