2 more bodies found burnt

WHAT residents of Roxborough Street, Diego Martin, thought was a bobolee left over from Good Friday turned out to be that of a  man who had been almost decapitated and burnt.

At the same time residents of Sogren Trace, Laventille, found the body of another man that had also been burnt, leading police to believe that a new pattern of violent crime was emerging.

Neither of the bodies has been identified.

It was the third such discovery this week, the first being that of a headless burnt body in Chinatown, Belmont, last Saturday morning.

In Diego Martin, a woman resident told Newsday that her husband saw a fire on Wednesday morning down a hill in the vicinity of an abandoned house. 

She said he threw some water on it from a distance, since they thought it was a Good Friday bobolee as one had been left over in the same area.

However, she said, family members picked up a scent and also saw a hand sticking up.  They then decided to call in the police just before 2 pm yesterday. 

A party of officers from the Western Division headed by Insp Narcis Cadette and including Sgts Anthony Lezama and Scott, Cpl Michael Veronique, and PCs Dexter Fournillier, Brisbane, Sookram, Campbell, Parris and Sheldene Bacchus visited the scene.

The officers found the man’s naked body, which was wrapped in a coloured sheet with the feet bound with duct tape. The upper part of his body was badly burnt and his head almost off.

District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr Michael Low Chee Tung visited the scene  and ordered the body’s removal to the Port-of-Spain mortuary. In the Laventille case, police believe that a man’s body was thrown over the 160-foot Fatima cliff because of the angle in which it was found around noon yesterday.

The body was face up with the head slightly bent. Hands and feet were outstretched and the man was wearing three quarter green denim jeans, black jersey and black shoes. It appeared to also have been burnt.

Residents called in the police and a party of officers from the Port-of-Spain Division under Supt Errol Denoon and including ASP Alfred Sealy, Insps Adam Joseph of the Anti Kidnapping Squad (AKS), Manechand Ramnarine and Manswell along with detective PC Christopher Swamber visited the scene.

A resident told police that the body looked like that of a man by the name of Tom Felix who went missing on Easter Monday. However, police are yet to confirm this. Investigations are continuing.