Fight over rum ends in death

A SUNDAY afternoon lime in Biche ended in murder after one of the limers died after being struck in the head with a brick during an argument over rum.

In the wake of Alexander Williams’ death, police have detained a 42-year-old man who is assisting them in their investigations. Williams’ murder was the third committed over the weekend. According to police reports, at around 9 am a group of men assembled at a house in Batiste Street, Biche to spend the day liming. Around 3.30 pm, Williams who lived nearby, got into a heated argument with another man over whose turn it was to drink a glass of rum. The quarrel ended in violence with the man taking up a brick and slamming it into Williams’ head.

Williams collapsed to the ground unconscious with blood pouring from his nose and mouth. He was taken to the Sangre Grande District Hospital where he died around 9 pm without ever regaining consciousness. The body was removed to the Port-of-Spain Mortuary. A report was made to the Biche Police Station and officers co-ordinated by Snr Supt Randolph Protain, led by ASP Maharaj and including Insp Edmond Thomas and Ag Sgt Moses Charles visited the house where the incident occurred and detained a 42-year-old man. An autopsy carried out on Williams’ body yesterday at the Forensic Sciences Centre revealed he died as a result of blunt cranio cerebral trauma. Police sources said investigators would visit Director of Public Prosecutions Geoffrey Henderson sometime today to get instructions on what charges (if any) would be laid against the suspect. Ag Sgt Moses Charles is continuing investigations.