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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Autopsies on Tobago mom, children find blunt-force trauma

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Au­top­sies on the bod­ies of Sarah Smith and her chil­dren, Phoenix and Gen­uine, have re­vealed that they all died of blunt-force trau­ma.  

The au­top­sies were done at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal Mor­tu­ary yes­ter­day, al­most three weeks af­ter their deaths.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that al­though the re­sults of the au­top­sies may raise ques­tions, the deaths have not been re­clas­si­fied and re­main un­clas­si­fied.  
How­ev­er, they said with the au­top­sies now com­plet­ed, To­ba­go in­ves­ti­ga­tors had start­ed a probe to de­ter­mine if the blunt-force trau­ma was caused by the fall or if some­one caused it, lead­ing to their deaths.  

Sources told Guardian Me­dia the post-mortem re­vealed all three de­ceased sus­tained blunt-force trau­ma to their heads.  
They were found dead in a de­com­mis­sioned WASA tank in Par­latu­vi­er on Sep­tem­ber 10, af­ter be­ing re­port­ed miss­ing days be­fore.  
A foul odour from the tank led po­lice in the area to their bod­ies dur­ing a search op­er­a­tion.  

Smith, orig­i­nal­ly from Trinidad, had moved to To­ba­go seek­ing a bet­ter life. A close friend re­port­ed that she be­came de­pressed af­ter her busi­ness failed and she was evict­ed from her apart­ment.  

Her moth­er, Jacque­line Wayne, who re­port­ed her miss­ing, re­port­ed that she no­ticed un­usu­al be­hav­iour from Sarah, in­clud­ing com­plaints of hear­ing voic­es and her walk­ing naked through the com­mu­ni­ty, be­fore they went miss­ing.  

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day they would leave no stone un­turned in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.


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