Sascha Wil­son

Homi­cide de­tec­tives had a busy week­end prob­ing the mur­ders of two men with­in a sev­en-hour pe­ri­od in Point Fortin and San­ta Flo­ra. The slain men were iden­ti­fied as Rae Ather­ly, of Point Fortin and 42-year-old Ian King, of Tu­na­puna. Up to late yes­ter­day po­lice had not made ar­rests in ei­ther of the killings. Po­lice re­ports stat­ed that around 6 pm on Fri­day the de­com­pos­ing body of Ather­ly was found in his house at South­ern Gar­dens, off War­den Road. He lived alone.

Po­lice said his body bore chop wounds to the head and im­pres­sions left on his neck sug­gest­ed that he may have been stran­gled with some­thing. In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve it could have been a piece of wire. He was last seen alive on Tues­day. Mean­while, dur­ing the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day morn­ing, res­i­dents of Agipeta Av­enue, San­ta Flo­ra were awak­en by loud ex­plo­sions. When the of­fi­cers ar­rived around 1 am, they found King's bul­let-rid­dled body on the side of the road. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said King was orig­i­nal­ly from Tu­na­puna, but was stay­ing in San­ta Flo­ra. Po­lice said they had re­ceived in­for­ma­tion which sug­gests that he was hid­ing in San­ta Flo­ra af­ter re­ceiv­ing death threats. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.