Rel­a­tives of a woman, who was chopped and beat­en be­fore her home was torched on Tues­day, are dis­sat­is­fied with the po­lice’s at­tempt at ar­rest the sus­pect.

One of Rosey Saun­ders-Morales’ four daugh­ters, Ser­ayah Saun­ders, told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day that there are tell-tale signs that the sus­pect, a na­tion­al of Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, has been around two homes in the St He­le­na dis­trict.

Saun­ders said her moth­er, who re­mains in hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing the at­tack, owns two prop­er­ties in St He­le­na and there have been vis­i­ble signs that some­one has been at them.

She said the sus­pect, a 35-year-old co­conut ven­dor, es­caped on a bi­cy­cle.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said they are work­ing on the case and as­sured that an ar­rest is im­mi­nent and plead­ed with rel­a­tives to have some pa­tience.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the sus­pect torched the house af­ter chop­ping and beat­ing Saun­ders-Morales and beat­ing one of her daugh­ters af­ter an ar­gu­ment over prop­er­ty.

The sus­pect at­tacked Saun­ders-Morales and Shamaryah Saun­ders, 14, with a cut­lass, knives and a ham­mer fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment over prop­er­ty which be­gan be­fore 7 am.

The sus­pect had re­peat­ed­ly asked for con­trol of the two prop­er­ties and had threat­ened to end his own life in the past if he was not giv­en con­trol of them.

Two months ago he sliced his left fore­arm with a cut­lass.