Hunt on for Piparo killer

The teenager, who was also wounded during the attack, yesterday began receiving counselling from the Witness and Victim Support Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. Up to yesterday, Heeralal’s killer was still at large and officers from the San Fernando CID continued the manhunt for him in the Piparo forest. Newsday was told that the suspect’s relatives also mounted a search for him in the forest after a “seer man” had informed them that he was in a “shed in the bush and his life was running out.”

The wanted man, a father of two, is from Borde Narve in Princes Town. According to police reports, at about one o’clock on Wednesday, Heeralal was at her Dindial Trace, Piparo home when she and a male relative had an argument. It was reported that he took a cutlass and fatally chopped Heeralal several times about the body. An autopsy performed at the Forensic Science Centre, St James revealed that death was due to nine chop wounds at the back of the head. Heeralal’s relatives are calling for more police presence in the area until the suspect is found.