The soldier who surrendered to police in connection with the murders of Abiola Cudjoe and her son Levi Lewis will likely spend the weekend in prison awaiting charges.
Senior Homicide Division officers said yesterday that the 35-year-old soldier was interviewed in the presence of his attorneys Kiran Panday and Surya Deonarine.
He had spent one day on the run before he gave himself up around 2.32 pm on Wednesday.
Investigating officer Insp Maharaj took a detailed statement from him.
The soldier was also taken for a medical examination at the San Fernando General Hospital on Wednesday and this will be submitted as part of a file to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
A senior officer said it is unlikely that charges will be laid before the weekend.
Both Cudjoe and her son were chopped and knifed to death before 2 am on Tuesday.
Lewis, a student of the St Dominic’s RC School in Penal, suffered a wound to his neck while Cudjoe suffered chops on her arms and chest.
Levi wrote the SEA examinations in March and had hoped to pass for his first choice, Presentation College in San Fernando.
Cudjoe, 30, a pig farmer, was at home with Levi and her other child, a three-year-old boy, when they were attacked. Fortunately, the three-year-old was not injured and was found asleep in a room.
The front door was broken, police said.
Cudjoe was married to her last son’s father but he moved out of the house last week.
Police confirmed Cudjoe made several domestic violence reports against a 35-year-old male relative.
After her hand was broken in an alleged domestic dispute, she applied for a protection order on April 25, which was subsequently granted by the court. That same day, she took to social media saying she had been abused for eight years.
—RADHICA DE SILVA
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