Mason killed for a touch

AN accusation that he touched a 16-year-old girl’s hand, is believed to have led to the murder of a 41-year-old Princes Town mason who on Monday night succumbed to a stab wound. He had been warded at the San Fernando General Hospital. However, grieving relatives of murder victim Lincoln Teesedale, of Teesedale Trace, Fifth Company Village, claim it was a case of mistaken identity which led to the fatal stabbing. Teesedale died six days after being stabbed by the teenaged girl’s boyfriend. The deceased was the father of  two girls and a boy — Kalifer, 17, Kareem, 16, and Latifah, 13. Roy Lee Teesedale, brother of the deceased, said the fatal stabbing took place a stone’s throw away from the Teesedale residence, and happened in the presence of several relatives.

Since the incident, police said, the 22-year-old suspect has been on the run. However, Teesedale’s relatives said the suspect had been seen around the village. Up to late yesterday no arrests had been made and the Barrackpore police are continuing investigations.