An­na-Lisa Paul

In­fant saved from at­tack­ing rel­a­tive

The 24-year-old man ac­cused of bit­ing off chunks of his ba­by's flesh dur­ing an at­tack on Sun­day is set to un­der­go a psy­chi­atric and med­ical eval­u­a­tion be­fore charges are laid. The ca­ble tech­ni­cian re­mained in cus­tody up to late yes­ter­day at the Port-of-Spain CID. He was in­ter­viewed yes­ter­day by a team of po­lice led by Se­nior Supt Wayne Boyd.

Po­lice said the in­ves­ti­ga­tions were still be­ing car­ried out to de­ter­mine the man's ad­dress, as they had been giv­en sev­er­al lo­ca­tions in Mor­vant, Care­nage and Port-of-Spain. Po­lice al­so went to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, yes­ter­day to in­ter­view the doc­tor in charge of ba­by Ji­nayah, whose con­di­tion has been de­scribed as crit­i­cal.

Sources close to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion said they need­ed the doc­tor's re­port be­fore they could ap­proach Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard for in­struc­tions. Se­nior of­fi­cials are hop­ing to meet with him some­time to­day. The sus­pect's fam­i­ly has al­ready re­tained at­tor­ney Vit­ti Fur­longe-Kel­ly.

Po­lice said around 2 am on Sun­day, the sus­pect be­came an­gry af­ter he ar­rived home and found there was no food. At the time, Ji­nayah was asleep in her moth­er's arms. Her moth­er, Tine­ka Hen­ry, 22, tried to pro­tect the child, but the man grabbed her and bit her on the left cheek and right leg.

Ji­nayah was tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal by her aunt, who heard the com­mo­tion and rushed to their aid. She was treat­ed and lat­er trans­ferred to Mt Hope.