In­ves­ti­ga­tors are yet to de­ter­mine whether rob­bery was the mo­tive for Sat­ur­day’s mur­der of Point Fortin busi­ness woman San­dra Gopee-Despot.

Gopee-Despot, 56, was dis­cov­ered dead by her com­mon-law hus­band, Floyd Pat­ter­son, at their home in Fan­ny Vil­lage.

A re­port stat­ed that an anony­mous wit­ness con­tact­ed the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion, re­port­ing a woman ly­ing un­re­spon­sive at a house at Hol­ly­wood Junc­tion.

Cpl Chan­g­oor and WPC Mon­segue, who were on mo­bile pa­trol, went to the house and met Floyd, who re­port­ed that he left the house around 6.30 am Sat­ur­day with Gopee-Despot in­side.

When he re­turned at 6.30 pm, he found her ly­ing in blood, un­re­spon­sive, on the liv­ing room floor.

She had in­juries to her head, and some­one cov­ered her face with a sheet.

Floyd took the of­fi­cers in­to the house, where they saw Gopee-Despot ly­ing in un­der­wear, both hands bound with plas­tic straps.

Her killer had cov­ered her with a cream-coloured bed sheet.

The Beach Road, Hollywood, Fanny Village home of Sandra Gopee-Despot where she was killed.

INNIS FRANCIS

They al­so no­ticed that one of the bed­rooms was ran­sacked.

The of­fi­cers cor­doned off the crime scene and con­tact­ed their se­niors.

South West­ern Di­vi­sion’s ASP Vic­tor, In­sp Cor­rie, W/In­sp Taitt and Sgt Ba­jan, along­side Cpl Marsh, WPC Ran­some and WPC Rav­el­lo from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions: Re­gion Three, vis­it­ed the scene.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer, Dr Joan­na De Gannes, con­firmed Gopee-Despot’s death and or­dered the body’s re­moval to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal mor­tu­ary.

Un­der­tak­ers will trans­fer the body to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James for an au­top­sy this week. Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the scene, tak­ing two mo­bile phones, a T-shirt and kha­ki pants in­to ev­i­dence.

—KEVON FELMINE