Don’t press charges

IN A bizarre twist to Tuesday’s rescue of an 18-year-old Tunapuna woman who was found by police bound and gagged at a house in San Fernando, the victim has told police she does not want to press charges against her 23-year-old husband, who was among four held for her abduction. However, senior police in Southern Division told Newsday the four suspects, one of whom is a woman, and whose ages range from 22 to 25, will be placed on several ID parades in various police divisions between yesterday and today, since they are suspects in other crimes. The four are suspected of being involved in extortion, demanding money through menace and actual violence.

Police told Newsday the 18-year-old victim discharged herself from the San Fernando General Hospital Tuesday night, hours after being rescued, and against doctor’s orders. She sustained a fractured skull and several fractured ribs during her abduction ordeal. It was reported that the teen’s mother alerted Marabella Police on Tuesday that the teen was being kept against her will at a house in St Joseph Village, San Fernando.

Marabella CID and South Crime Suppression Unit (CSU) officers raided the house and held the four suspects and found the battered teen bound and gagged. Another man, who claimed to have been abducted since Sunday, was also found bound and gagged in the house. Both victims were taken to hospital. The four are expected to appear on various ID parades between yesterday and today. ACP (South) and Snr Supt Dawson Victor are supervising investigations.