‘Bat’ stabbed to death

Dead is Bryan “Bat” Jackson, 39, a mason, of Martiste Road, Hindustan in New Grant. A police report stated that shortly after 7 pm, Jackson and a group of men were liming at Allan’s Bar at New Town Junction. While there, a heated argument broke out during which a scuffle ensued between Jackson, also called Scary, and a 23-year-old villager.

Police said during the scuffle, the villager stabbed Jackson twice in the chest.

Relatives took him to the Princes Town District Health Facility where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Police arrested the suspect shortly after, at his home on Naggee Road. Up to yesterday he remained in police custody.

Speaking to Sunday Newsday yesterday, Jackson’s sister Sharon said the killing was a serious blow not only to the Jackson family but also the suspect’s.

“He (the suspect) is like family to us. He grew up right out the road and to us was a little cousin.

It is hard for both sides of the family, really hard. My brother was a quiet man who don’t be in these types of things. He did not meddle with anyone,” Sharon said.

She added that Jackson was on his way home from work and may have opted to “take a drink” at the bar, as he normally did “now and then”.

“We don’t know what exactly happened. We know he was on his way home from working with a contractor and Bat had not reached here as yet,” said the sister.

Whatever plans Jackson had for his mother today (Mother’s Day) the family will never know.

His mother Margaret, 60, said she last spoke to him a few days ago and never expected he would have been killed.

“I don’t know if he had any plans for today. It is sad. Three years ago, just days before Mother’s Day, my mother died and now he died days before Mother’s Day. She was old and died of natural causes,” Margaret added. Her mother Virginia was 99.

Officers of the Princes Town Police Station and Homicide Bureau, Region III, visited the scene.

An autopsy is expected to be performed tomorrow at the Forensic Sciences Centre, St James.

In an unrelated incident, a Penal gardener discovered the decomposing body of a man at Scotts Road located off Penal Rock Road.

Although the identity is yet to be confirmed, police said it may be that of a villager – Mewhalal Ragbir, 60 – based on the clothes he was wearing.

A report stated a gardener was cleaning a parcel of land midday on Friday and observed a stench.

Upon checking, he saw the decomposing body and contacted the Penal police.

Also a Carenage man was shot and killed early yesterday morning.

According to reports residents of Rodney Street, Point Cumana, Carenage heard gunshots at about 1 am. Upon investigation they found the body of 39-yearold Damien Jemmot, who lived on that street.

Investigations are continuing.