Shas­tri Boodan

Two teenagers have been bat­tered to death in To­ba­go. Re­ports are that the bod­ies of two young men were dis­cov­ered in the French Fort, Scar­bor­ough area. One of the two has been iden­ti­fied as 16-year-old Kolen Sa­landy, of Pa­tience Hill, To­ba­go. Up to late last night po­lice were un­able to iden­ti­fy the body of the oth­er teen, who is be­lieved to be 15. Sa­landy is said to be a rel­a­tive of Jef­frey Mc Far­lane of the Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Board. Both bod­ies were bat­tered and bore marks of vi­o­lence to the neck and throat, and both were found with their un­der­pants and trousers pulled down to their knees, a re­lease from the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty stat­ed.

Sa­landy's body was dis­cov­ered by mem­bers of a re­li­gious group who had gone to the area to pray. The oth­er body was, how­ev­er, dis­cov­ered by the po­lice while they were car­ry­ing out in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to Sa­landy's death. Po­lice re­ports re­vealed that Sa­landy at­tend­ed a par­ty at the Es­planade in Scar­bor­ough and was last seen get­ting in­to a car to go home. Up­on re­al­is­ing that he had not re­turned home, his par­ents filed a re­port at the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion this morn­ing. Po­lice say that Sa­landy had re­cent­ly com­plet­ed his CXC ex­ams and was about to start UWI A' Lev­el class­es. The two teens were pro­nounced dead by Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Men­tor Melville. Au­top­sies are ex­pect­ed to be car­ried out on the bod­ies on Tues­day.

To­ba­go po­lice be­lieve both vic­tims may have been killed by the same per­pe­tra­tor/s. Spe­cial­ist Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors (CSI) from the Spe­cial An­ti-Crime Unit of Trinidad and To­ba­go are ex­pect­ed to as­sist in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions. No ar­rests have yet been made. This is the sec­ond se­ri­ous crime to hit To­ba­go in re­cent times. Sev­en weeks ago, on Au­gust 1, British cou­ple Pe­ter and Muri­um Greene were bru­tal­ly chopped about their heads at their Ba­co­let home. The Greenes have since re­cov­ered and re­turned to the Unit­ed King­dom.