Poisoned husband dies at hospital

Salina , 47, succumbed to the poison while warded at the Intensive Care Unit at the EWMSC at 10 am yesterday.

Salina’s wife, Glenda Salina, remains warded at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital in a stable condition after he had chopped her in Longdenville on Monday morning.

The construction worker was rushed to the hospital at 10 am, not long after ingesting the poison at his Cemetery Street home in Lopinot. He had shortly before fled the scene at Penco Street, Longdenville, where he had attacked and chopped Glenda, partially severing her wrist and cutting off her finger.

The couple separated five months ago after a rocky 21-year marriage that produced three children.

When Glenda refused several attempts to reconcile, Salina began stalking her and finally attacked her near her daughter’s home while she was on her way to work. When Newsday visited the family’s Lopinot home, the couple’s son Dexter Salina said he did not have a picture of his father.

He also said that he and his mother were tormented by his father. "One minute my father will be cool, and next he would ‘trip.’ He would get violent, beat my mother and me. Two days before the incident, he ran me down with a cutlass. My mother got fed-up and left."

The teen would not say how he felt about his father’s death.