Driver charged with murder

After the suspect beat teenager Sancaro he then drove at highspeed towards him running him over. The attacker is reported to have stopped the van and reversed, running over the teen’s body a second time to make sure he was dead. He then drove off. The teen was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

According to reports, Sancaro and two friends were returning home from a bazaar in Otaheite and while walking along the Southern Main Road in Dow Village, South Oropouche, last week Sunday when they spotted the man beating a woman with a cutlass near a bar. The three intervened telling the man to stop beating the woman.

The man became enraged and turned on the three with his cutlass causing them to run off. Realising he could not catch them , the man then jumped into his Ford Ranger pickup and sped towards the fleeing men. On reaching a car wash, the suspect knocked down Sancaro from behind and then drove over him as he lay bleeding on the roadway. Sancaro was cremated on Wednesday following a service at Guides Crematorium in San Fernando.