Ex-soldiers still in custody

Charges are yet to be laid against them. At about 4.45 am on Wednesday, Jackson was at the New Grant home of his girlfriend Renee Pixie Dorner, 32, and her mother Odessa Constance, 70, when gunmen stormed the house and shot and wounded him. Attempts were also made to burn down the wooden house.

One of the getaway vehicles was intercepted on the north bound lane of the Munroe Road Flyover in Chaguanas and the suspects held. Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier General Rodney Smart has since expressed his disappointment over the behaviour of the former soldiers who were dishonourably discharged two years ago from the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force.

Together the men who were members of the elite special services had served a total of 34 years in the army.