Hubby: I want to see her before she leaves

A GRENADIAN national who escaped the fury of Hurricane Ivan in September is pleading with immigration officials to allow him entry to Canada to attend tomorrow’s funeral service for his murdered estranged wife. Matthew Redhead, 37, is awaiting word from the Canadian High Commission in Port-of-Spain as to whether he will be allowed entry into Toronto having been deported twice before for overstaying visits to Canada. His estranged wife Cimerron Ellinore Leona Doncaster, 24, was slashed several times in the neck last Friday by her boyfriend Dean Anthony Plante who later hanged himself. Redhead’s three children were in the basement of the Toronto apartment when their mother was murdered.

Newsday learnt that a minister in the Grenadian government sent a fax to the Canadian High Commission in Port-of-Spain yesterday morning seeking a special permit for Redhead to enter Canada. The special permit, as opposed to a normal visitor’s visa, is required because Redhead was deported from Canada about three years ago after overstaying his visitor’s permit. Newsday was unable to find out whether the Port-of-Spain mission granted the special permit. A check with the Canadian High Commission in Port-of-Spain drew a blank as a spokeswoman for the Commission indicated that it was not at liberty to discuss the private matters of visa-applicants with the press or public. Family members in Toronto have arranged a funeral for the slain woman tomorrow at the Heritage Funeral Home, 50 Overlea Boulevard at 11 am with interment in the Prospect Cemetery on St Clair Avenue.

Every effort is being made to have Redhead go to Canada for the funeral. Reports revealed that family members have been allowed into the apartment where the murder took place and have sent Redhead’s marriage certificate and his children’s birth certificates to the Grenadian consulate in Toronto. The staff at the consulate has promised to assist by getting the documents to Canadian authorities in the Caribbean who can issue the visitor’s visa, reports revealed. Redhead has three children in Canada, ages seven, four, and three. He hopes to return with the children to Grenada where they were born. But if that’s not possible, he would like to go to Toronto to bury his wife. “I love my children. I want them with me. I am all they have now. Their mother.... my wife is dead,” he said. “I want to see my wife before she leaves. I won’t see her anymore. She will be gone,” said Redhead.