Four peo­ple are ex­pect­ed to be charged with the mur­ders of Ken­neth Gill and Bernard Ma­habir, whose burnt bod­ies were dis­cov­ered in the trunk of a car in Va­len­cia, on Mon­day, April 27.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the TTPS said the ac­cused were a 57-year-old woman of El So­cor­ro, a 45-year-old woman, a 27-year-old man and a 41-year-old man, all of Va­len­cia. The charges are to be laid fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Roger Gas­pard SC, on Mon­day May, 11.

Gill, 67, of Trinci­ty and Ma­habir, 71, of Tu­na­puna, were re­port­ed miss­ing on April 27 at the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion. En­quiries re­vealed they were last seen on Sun­day, April 26, at a bar in the Lopinot dis­trict.

Gill’s bank card was sub­se­quent­ly used to make cash with­drawals from ATMs in the Ari­ma and San­gre Grande dis­tricts the fol­low­ing day. Whilst on en­quiries in Va­len­cia, of­fi­cers ob­served a burnt ve­hi­cle along Tapana Road. Up­on mak­ing checks in­side the ve­hi­cle, the burnt re­mains of two peo­ple were found.

Com­ment­ing on the break­through in the case, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said, “This was a bru­tal and sense­less act that shook the con­science of our na­tion. No fam­i­ly should ever have to en­dure such pain and in this par­tic­u­lar case, there were two.

“I ex­tend my deep­est con­do­lences to the loved ones af­fect­ed, and I want them to know that they were nev­er alone in this fight for jus­tice. The Homi­cide Bu­reau moved with ex­cep­tion­al speed and dis­ci­pline, en­sur­ing that those re­spon­si­ble were brought to ac­count. Their work re­flects the courage and com­mit­ment that the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go de­serve. To any­one who be­lieves they can ter­rorise our com­mu­ni­ties, un­der­stand this clear­ly: the TTPS will find you, we will pur­sue you, and we will bring you to jus­tice.”