Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

A re­port­ed love tri­an­gle end­ed trag­i­cal­ly af­ter Rae-Ann “Lucy” Hen­ry, 39, of Canaan, was stabbed to death in Bon Ac­cord, To­ba­go, on Sat­ur­day.

The mur­der pushed the is­land’s toll to 10 for 2023.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that around 9 pm on Sat­ur­day, Hen­ry was in­volved in an al­ter­ca­tion with an­oth­er woman when she was stabbed.

She col­lapsed along Gaskin Bay Road. The moth­er of two and grand­moth­er of two died while be­ing trans­port­ed to hos­pi­tal around 9.50 pm.

Hen­ry’s moth­er, Lois Win­ches­ter-Jofiel, yes­ter­day told Guardian Me­dia that her daugh­ter went to her girl­friend’s house and was con­front­ed by an­oth­er woman.

De­spite feel­ing emp­ty and de­pressed by the death, she claimed her daugh­ter was wrong.

She said, “Lucy was wrong to go in­to the la­dy’s place to slap the girl, for what rea­son? She was wrong and the girl was wrong for stab­bing her and killing her. I try to be a fair per­son.”

She de­scribed her daugh­ter as kind, lov­ing and ac­com­mo­dat­ing, not­ing she had “her own tomboy­ish lifestyle.”

She lament­ed, “I feel sad, I feel emp­ty, I feel use­less. I al­so feel de­spon­dent. Every­thing that could bring some­one in­to a de­pres­sive mood. I feel it af­ter los­ing Lucy.”

She added: “When po­lice bring the news for me I scream out. Since then, when I’m by my­self, I cry be­cause now I don’t have any­one to go over the road and check. My mind was on her whole day but I nev­er called her. The last time we spoke she told me don’t stress. She al­ways en­cour­ages me to do that.”

De­spite the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her daugh­ter’s death, she said she has for­giv­en the per­son in­volved in the stab­bing.

“I wasn’t ex­pect­ing to lose Lucy in my life. I’m not hold­ing that per­son at ran­som. I was not there. I don’t know what tran­spired.”

Com­ment­ing on the crime sit­u­a­tion on the is­land, Win­ches­ter-Joseph said, “It needs to stop. Hope­ful­ly, we don’t have any more over the next three months. When I heard my daugh­ter be­came the is­land’s tenth mur­der vic­tim, I said ‘Look how easy it is for some­one to die’.”

She said her daugh­ter was known in the com­mu­ni­ty and loved by many res­i­dents in the Crown Point, Canaan and Bon Ac­cord ar­eas.

She said, “I want to tell moth­ers in my sit­u­a­tion to tell your chil­dren you love them dai­ly, so if any­thing hap­pens to them, that would be your last words to them. That is what To­ba­go needs – love. Things will be dif­fer­ent in our lives.”

One per­son is as­sist­ing To­ba­go po­lice with their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.