Two men charged for St James teen’s murder

TWO men have been charged for last Wednesday’s murder of St James resident Ashley Mathlin, 18, who was attacked and stabbed to death while walking along Bournes Road, St James.

The charges were laid by Detective Sgt Nandram Monilal of St James CID, and followed instructions from Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Geoffrey Henderson on Friday. The two men aged 34 and 38 from St James, will appear before a Port-of-Spain magistrate tomorrow to answer the murder charge. Investigations were spearheaded by Snr Supt Glasgow and Insp Cadette. Sgt Monilal and officers from the Homicide Bureau met with DPP Henderson on Friday. Henderson later perused the case file and autopsy report, following which, he gave instructions for the laying of the murder charge. Mathlin was reportedly walking along Upper Bournes Road, St James around 10.35 pm, when he was ambushed by four men who had alighted from a van. The men beat Mathlin who, as he fell to the pavement, was stabbed in the left side of his chest and died.