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Thursday, July 3, 2025

English actress found dead at Valsayn home

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Anna-Lisa Paul
484 days ago
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Police officers arrive at the scene where 79-year-old Viscella Richards body was found at Ashland Avenue, Valsayn.

Police officers arrive at the scene where 79-year-old Viscella Richards body was found at Ashland Avenue, Valsayn.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be car­ried out to­day on the body of a Val­sayn woman who was found dead in her home on Wednes­day.

Vis­cel­la Richards, 79, was found with her hands bound on the bed­room floor of the house at Val­sayn Av­enue, off Ash­land Av­enue, North Val­sayn. There were no oth­er marks of vi­o­lence on the body.

Richards had no chil­dren and lived alone at the house, lo­cat­ed at the end of a pri­vate road in the up­scale neigh­bour­hood.

She was a suc­cess­ful the­atre ac­tress who had been liv­ing in Trinidad for the past 20 years but still held UK cit­i­zen­ship.

Richards’ body was dis­cov­ered by a friend who went to check af­ter be­ing un­able to reach her since Tues­day evening. The woman ar­rived at the house and found the front gate closed. She called out to Richards sev­er­al times af­ter find­ing the front door ajar and stum­bled up­on the body as she searched the house for the el­der­ly woman.

Shocked friends strug­gled to di­gest the news as they re­called the type of per­son Richards was.

One man said, “She was a beau­ti­ful la­dy, a warm per­son, en­gag­ing, thor­ough.”

“Liv­ing alone in this place, we felt she need­ed some­body in the house with her, but in a sit­u­a­tion like this with peo­ple re­al­is­ing she lived alone...she may have been a soft tar­get,” he added.

A guard em­ployed by SWAT Es­tate Po­lice said of­fi­cers had car­ried out two dai­ly pa­trols at 9 am and 11 am and would have swiped their se­cu­ri­ty pass at Richards’ house dur­ing those pa­trols but were on­ly no­ti­fied around 12.30 pm of the dis­cov­ery of her body.

One of Richards’ neigh­bours ex­pressed con­cern for his fam­i­ly’s safe­ty. He said al­though they have an alarm sys­tem in place, CCTV cam­eras and three dogs, the in­ci­dent would force him to look at ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures.


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