An Ari­ma man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mag­is­trate vir­tu­al­ly to­day, charged with the mur­der of his wife, Aman­da Leid, which oc­curred on May 28th. Roger John, 38, of Mal­abar, was charged with the of­fence fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP), Joan Hon­ore-Paul, on June 9th.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, Leid’s burnt body was found by of­fi­cers re­spond­ing to a re­port of a dis­tur­bance at her home on May 28th. Up­on ar­riv­ing at the scene, of­fi­cers ob­served a fire em­a­nat­ing from an apart­ment. When the blaze was ex­tin­guished, her body was found un­der a bed­frame in a bed­room. An au­top­sy re­vealed she died as a re­sult of mul­ti­ple stab wounds to the body.

The ac­cused sought med­ical at­ten­tion at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and was ar­rest­ed lat­er that day by of­fi­cers of the In­ter­A­gency Task Force in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by ASP Dou­glas, In­sp. Ram­jag and Sgt. Stanis­claus of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI) Re­gion 2, while John was charged by WPC Sargeant, al­so of HBI, Re­gion 2, on Wednes­day 9th June, 2021