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Friday, July 11, 2025

Police trying to close investigation into prison officers' murders

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Bavita Gopaulchan
1273 days ago
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Pallbearers stand next to the casket of murdered prison officer Trevor Serrette during his funeral service at St Francis RC Church, Sangre Grande, in early December 2021.

Pallbearers stand next to the casket of murdered prison officer Trevor Serrette during his funeral service at St Francis RC Church, Sangre Grande, in early December 2021.

RALPH BANWARIE

Bavi­ta Gopaulchan

There is a le­gal hur­dle block­ing po­lice from clos­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killings of prison of­fi­cers Trevor Ser­rette and Nigel Jones.

Act­ing Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, Wen­dell Williams said this is why the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has not been able to pro­vide the pub­lic with con­clu­sive in­for­ma­tion on the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Prison of­fi­cers Jones and Ser­rette were gunned down in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents last No­vem­ber.

Jones was mur­dered while with his 4-year-old daugh­ter at Old Siparia Road Junc­tion while Ser­rette, 48, was killed at a fruit stall in San­gre Grande.

Nine peo­ple were de­tained in con­nec­tion with Ser­rette’s mur­der. How­ev­er, no one has been ar­rest­ed for Jones’ killing.

“We have in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­u­ing in­to the killings of Mr. Ser­rette and Mr. Jones. There has been sig­nif­i­cant ma­te­r­i­al ob­tained in one of these in­ves­ti­ga­tions in par­tic­u­lar. We have a le­gal hur­dle to cross and that is part of the rea­son why we are not able to bring to you some con­clu­sive in­for­ma­tion on that par­tic­u­lar in­ves­ti­ga­tion,” Williams in­di­cat­ed.

“We have seen some ex­cel­lent work done and we in­tend to push to get what we need to solve and de­ter. So, we will con­tin­ue look­ing at the prison,” he added.

Last De­cem­ber, a hit list was dis­cov­ered at the Re­mand Yard, Gold­en Grove Prison, in Arou­ca. At the top of the list were prison of­fi­cers Ser­rette and Jones with the word, "dead" writ­ten next to their names.

“We’ve been aware for a while that cer­tain in­mates, some on re­mand in prison, have been com­plic­it ion com­mit­ting mur­ders while in prison so one of the ar­eas that I in­tend to con­tin­ue to give ef­fort in is treat­ing with that,” he af­firmed.

Williams as­sured that po­lice are work­ing on new ways to part­ner with the prison ser­vice to en­sure the safe­ty of its of­fi­cers. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, he said po­lice will con­tin­ue to crack down on er­rant prison of­fi­cers who have been fa­cil­i­tat­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties be­hind the prison walls.


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