A Mar­aval woman is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a Port of Spain Mag­is­trate to­mor­row charged with the mur­der of in­sur­ance ex­ec­u­tive John Hen­ry Smith on Ju­ly 23. The charge was laid by PC Sher­mon Mar­tin of the Homi­cide Di­vi­sion.

Jamie Joseph-Smith, 41, of Hale­land Park, Mar­aval, was charged fol­low­ing ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard on Fri­day.

On Ju­ly 23 a dis­tress call was made to the Po­lice E999 com­mand cen­tre. Of­fi­cers from the West­ern Di­vi­sion re­spond­ed, and on ar­rival at a res­i­dence at Sad­dle Road, Mar­aval dis­cov­ered the life­less body of John Hen­ry Smith ly­ing in the dri­ve­way of his home with in­juries to his head, with a woman at his side. Jamie Joseph Smith sur­ren­dered to the po­lice and con­fessed to the mur­der.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Clarence Bur­nette, spear­head­ed by In­spec­tor Lei­th Jones and con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI) Re­gion 1.