Kevon Felmine

The day af­ter mur­der­ing his com­mon-law wife Mar­i­lyn Murggan, Cepep work­er Harold Ali died yes­ter­day of poi­son­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.Po­lice con­firmed that 55-year-old Ali was pro­nounced dead around 5.15 am af­ter drink­ing poi­son on Car­ni­val Tues­day.Ali, orig­i­nal­ly of Roops­ingh Road, Co­r­i­al Vil­lage, Cara­pichaima, was found by passers­by on the road­side at Gas­par­il­lo, two hours af­ter stran­gling Murggan.

Ali and Murggan were in­volved in an ar­gu­ment over mon­ey at their Wya­by Road, Cara­pichaima home around 2 am.Po­lice said Murggan's daugh­ters con­tact­ed their aunt Su­san Sin­cere, telling her of the fight. When Sin­cere showed up at Murggan's home around 6 am, she found her sis­ter in the bath­room in a se­mi-con­scious state with marks on her neck.Freeport po­lice took her to the Cou­va Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where she was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Af­ter flee­ing the house, Ali con­tact­ed his chil­dren from a past mar­riage and told them what he had done.Gas­par­il­lo po­lice, re­spond­ing to re­ports of a body ly­ing at Vic­to­ria Street, found Ali froth­ing from the mouth and un­con­scious. He was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal where he re­mained un­der po­lice guard un­til his death. Au­top­sies on both Murggan and Ali are ex­pect­ed to be done at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain to­day.