KEVON FELMINE

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

A Vista­bel­la man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day to an­swer for last month’s mur­der of night­club work­er Dale Lewis.

The ac­cused, who was ar­rest­ed by Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice on Fri­day, was charged by WPC Se­ri­oux fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three, in­clu­sive of In­sp Cor­rie, In­sp Jones and Cpl Smith.

It is al­leged that on Jan­u­ary 20, Lewis, 43, of Cou­va, was at the home of the sus­pect’s ex-girl­friend when he was stabbed sev­er­al times in the neck.

Re­ports stat­ed that Lewis and the sus­pect’s girl­friend worked at a club in Cou­va and fol­low­ing a Fri­day night’s shift, they went bar hop­ping. Lewis lat­er ac­com­pa­nied the woman to her La So­phie Av­enue, Clax­ton Bay home to en­sure that she was safe. It was then the sus­pect went to the woman’s home and on see­ing Lewis, got up­set and an ar­gu­ment broke out.

The woman con­tact­ed St Mar­garet’s po­lice and the of­fi­cers ar­rived on the scene and or­dered the sus­pect to leave.

How­ev­er, at around 4.15 am the next day, the sus­pect re­turned and found Lewis asleep out­side the house. This time he got in­to an ar­gu­ment with Lewis, whom he ac­cused of be­ing with his girl­friend. Dur­ing the ar­gu­ment, the sus­pect picked up a knife and stabbed Lewis sev­er­al times in his neck be­fore run­ning off.

Mean­while, Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice has held a 24-year-old Clax­ton Bay labour­er on Fri­day for the 2018 mur­der of Par­lia­ment clerk Mar­i­an­na Moon­is­ar. On Au­gust 3, Moon­is­ar, 28, died from a bul­let to the head while dri­ving to her Cou­va home. Her fa­ther Roopc­hand “Chip­py” Moon­is­ar, who was al­so in the car, es­caped death, al­though a bul­let struck him in the cheek.

Around 5.30 am that day, gun­shots were fired while Roopc­hand and Moon­is­ar were dri­ving through the same area that they were am­bushed.

How­ev­er, they did not know the bul­lets were for them. Around 5.15 pm, Moon­is­ar was about to turn her Nis­san Ti­i­da car on­to the Es­per­an­za Road when two gun­men opened fire on the car, killing her and wound her fa­ther. Back then, po­lice be­lieved that the gun­men were con­tract­ed to kill Moon­is­ar.