Sascha Wil­son

Less than two weeks af­ter moth­er of two Tineil Cu­pid was stabbed to death, her es­tranged boyfriend ap­peared in court for the crime.

In a vir­tu­al ap­pear­ance yes­ter­day, Siparia Mag­is­trate Aden Stroude read the charge to 42-year-old Ker­ry Kay­don Daniel.

Cu­pid’s body was found in a forest­ed area at Well No. 8, Syn­cline Road, San­ta Flo­ra on Tues­day Oc­to­ber 13 hours af­ter her moth­er re­port­ed to the po­lice that she was miss­ing.

Po­lice said around 3.15 pm a WASA em­ploy­ee stum­bled up­on her body at the well which is lo­cat­ed in a forest­ed area.

An au­top­sy re­vealed she had been stabbed mul­ti­ple times.

Three weeks be­fore, 23-year-old Cu­pid had end­ed her re­la­tion­ship with Daniel. She was stay­ing at the home of her moth­er Na­tal­ie Man­zano at Easy Street, Fyz­abad. Man­zano re­port­ed to po­lice that Cu­pid left her home around 10:20 pm on Mon­day Oc­to­ber 12 with Daniel to col­lect clothes and to pur­chase food.

Daniel was ar­rest­ed at his Fyz­abad home the day af­ter her body was dis­cov­ered. Cu­pid was a CEPEP work­er and had two chil­dren, ages six and four.

Cu­pid’s fu­ner­al ser­vice took place on Tues­day at Guides Fu­ner­al Home in San Fer­nan­do. En­quiries were con­duct­ed by WPC Dy­er-Bap­tiste, WPC Cal­len­der and PC Nel­son while the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by In­spec­tor (Ag.) Jones, Sgt. Elvin and Sgt. Stephen James with the guid­ance of Le­gal Of­fi­cer, PC Lewis.

Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Joan Hon­ore-Paul gave in­struc­tions to de­tec­tives on Thurs­day to charge Daniel with mur­der. Pros­e­cu­tor Sgt Ba­jan told the court that the file has to be sent to the of­fice of the DPP for a state at­tor­ney to be ap­point­ed in the mat­ter.

Daniel was rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Aaron Smith.

He was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody to reap­pear on No­vem­ber 20.