Visually impaired mother Yvonne Hoyte sobbed yesterday after a female relative bludgeoned her son to death with a golf club. It happened at the family's home in Claxton Bay on Thursday around 5 pm.
Mitchell Arnold, 39, of Lodge Road, Claxton Bay died instantly after being hit on the left side of the head.
Police were questioning a 29-year-old woman yesterday. They said, however, she acted in self defence as the victim attacked her with a knife. Torn between her love for the deceased and the suspect, Hoyte begged God to end her life, saying she could not bear any more burden.Recalling the incident, Hoyte said she was at home when a fight broke out between Arnold and the suspect.
Hoyte said Arnold always had "a grudge" against the suspect since she was a little girl."They never get along. He was always rushing to beat her. He was always taking advantage of them," Hoyte sobbed, wiping away tears. Police investigating the murder said the woman acted in self defence when Arnold attacked her with a knife.
Arnold's sister Yvette Hoyte who witnessed the incident, said Arnold came home drunk and started picking on the woman."They were quarelling and he pulled a knife to her. They started to scramble each other and I went to break up the fight. I couldn't do anything. She was defending herself," Yvette said.
She explained that Arnold was accustomed to picking fights whenever he was drunk. "He kicked me once in my belly last week and since that I always getting pains. My brother was always looking for fights when he get drunk. That was how he is," Yvette said. However, one of Arnold's brothers, who asked not to be named, said he would take justice into his own hands if the woman was released from custody. San Fernando homicide officers are continuing investigations.