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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Cops link bounced cheque to killings

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Homi­cide of­fi­cers are try­ing to de­ter­mine whether Wednes­day's dou­ble mur­der in Ch­agua­nas was a hit over a bo­gus cheque linked to the sale of a car.Po­lice yes­ter­day con­firmed that this was one of the the­o­ries be­ing ex­plored in the mur­ders of 23-year-old Sal­isha Lang­too and 39-year-old Clif­ford George, and the shoot­ing and chop­ping of 33-year-old Kwe­si Brooks and 31-year-old Car­lene Thomas.

Up to yes­ter­day Brooks, a se­cu­ri­ty guard at PPL Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices, re­mained ward­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, while Thomas, of East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain, was in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.Speak­ing at their Lisas Gar­dens home yes­ter­day, Brook's cousin Tim­o­thy Clarke said all four vic­tims were shot while go­ing to a lo­ca­tion in cen­tral Trinidad where Brooks was sup­posed to col­lect mon­ey for the sale of his Maz­da 323.

"I heard he went to sell the car and he got a bounced cheque, so he car­ried it back and he col­lect­ed $10,000 cash in hand."They told him to come and meet them some­where to get the rest and they were on their way there when the gun­men start shoot­ing at them."I feel it was a rob­bery linked to the car," Clarke said.Po­lice who processed the crime scene at the Ch­agua­nas Ceme­tery on Pe­ters­field Main Road, St Thomas Vil­lage, said they did not find any mon­ey at the scene and be­lieve it may have been stolen.

Mean­while, three men held in con­nec­tion with the mur­ders were trans­ferred to Gas­par­il­lo Po­lice Sta­tion, where they are al­so be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed for oth­er re­cent of­fences. They are ex­pect­ed to be charged soon.Link­ing the quar­tet to­geth­er, Clarke said George was a part-time taxi dri­ver whom Brooks hired to take him­self and Lang­too to get the mon­ey. He said George and Thomas were close friends.

Asked if there were any oth­er rea­sons why some­one would have tar­get­ed his cousin, he said: "Not re­al­ly, he was not in any crime and he is a work­ing fel­la. He was nev­er on any stu­pid­ness. He is orig­i­nal­ly from To­ba­go, but be­cause he got a work here, he stays with us."On the oth­er side of Lisas Gar­dens, Lang­too's rel­a­tives were prepar­ing for her fu­ner­al, which takes place to­day.Her griev­ing moth­er Far­isha Mo­hammed said her daugh­ter's death hap­pened be­cause she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Lang­too, who worked with Brooks, was blud­geoned to death with a car jack, caus­ing skull frac­tures and brain dam­age. Be­cause of this, Mo­hammed said she felt her daugh­ter fought with her killers.She said her daugh­ter and Brooks were lim­ing at Grand Bazaar dur­ing the day af­ter Brooks sold the car."I said be care­ful and go ahead, be­cause you have to go to work. She said, 'Yes, Mom­my, I hear you, I love you.' I kept call­ing her be­cause I felt some­thing was go­ing to hap­pen, I was get­ting signs," Mo­hammed said.

She said she sup­port­ed the rein­tro­duc­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment to de­ter crim­i­nals from tak­ing lives.


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