Ak­ile Si­mon

Po­lice have launched a mas­sive search for two Trinida­di­an men in con­nec­tion with the at­tack on British cou­ple, Pe­ter Greene, 65, and his wife Muri­um, 59, at their To­ba­go home last week­end. In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers have de­scribed one of the men as a "psy­cho­path­ic se­r­i­al killer," who they be­lieve may have been re­spon­si­ble for sim­i­lar killings and at­tacks in To­ba­go as well as Trinidad. He has been re­ferred to as "pub­lic en­e­my num­ber one," while his ac­com­plice has been de­scribed as a "sec­ondary sus­pect." In­ves­ti­ga­tors said they were work­ing on the the­o­ry that rob­bery was the mo­tive for last Sat­ur­day's in­ci­dent even though they had not been able to con­firm if any­thing was tak­en from the home of the Greenes dur­ing the at­tack. They sus­pect the in­ci­dent was a botched rob­bery. More of­fi­cers are ex­pect­ed to be sent to the To­ba­go to as­sist in the search for the sus­pects who have been de­scribed as armed and dan­ger­ous.

'Pas­sion to kill'

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice source close to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the prime sus­pect seemed to have a pas­sion for grue­some killings. "It ap­pears he has a pen­chant for bru­tal killings af­ter rob­bing his vic­tims," the source said. The man, po­lice sources said, was be­lieved to be a sus­pect in the killings of Swedish cou­ple, An­na Sundsval, 62, and Oke Ol­soon, 73, who were hacked to death at their Bon Ac­cord, To­ba­go, home on Oc­to­ber 11, last year. Po­lice be­lieve rob­bery was the mo­tive be­hind that in­ci­dent. The man is al­so the prime sus­pect in the killing of Barataria busi­ness­man Hen­rick Fos­ter Lewis.

Lewis, 56, was found hacked to death at his busi­ness place on Ju­ly 16.

He lived at the cor­ner of Third Av­enue and Eleventh Street, and op­er­at­ed an ap­pli­ance and cell­phone store on the com­pound. One week af­ter Lewis' mur­der, of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion re­ceived in­for­ma­tion and raid­ed sev­er­al hous­es in La Brea. They de­tained three sus­pects. A fourth sus­pect was ar­rest­ed dri­ving Lewis' Galant in the La Brea dis­trict. Un­der in­ter­ro­ga­tion, the men gave cer­tain in­for­ma­tion about Lewis' mur­der. One of the men was charged by South West­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers with pos­ses­sion of a stolen ve­hi­cle, while the oth­ers were re­leased, pend­ing fur­ther in­quiries. Days be­fore the at­tack on the Greenes, po­lice re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that the main sus­pect had left Trinidad for To­ba­go. But, po­lice were on­ly able to con­nect the dots when they ex­am­ined the sim­i­lar­i­ty with all three in­ci­dents which linked the sus­pect to the crimes.

They were work­ing on the the­o­ry that the sus­pect went to hide in To­ba­go.

A po­lice source said the sus­pect de­cid­ed to stay in To­ba­go, dur­ing which time the Greenes were at­tacked. They be­lieve he may have oth­er ac­com­plices who were called in to as­sist in re­mov­ing loot af­ter com­mit­ting the crime. Of­fi­cers have al­ready ob­tained pho­tographs of the sus­pect, who they said lived "here, there and every­where." "He moves around and does not stay one place for too long," an­oth­er source said.

On Wednes­day, act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gilbert Reyes in­struct­ed de­tec­tives of the Homi­cide Bu­reau in Trinidad to take charge of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the bru­tal at­tack on British cou­ple. He has ap­point­ed act­ing ASP John­ny Abra­ham, In­sp Stan­ley Ramdeen and PC Sunil Ra­moutar to take over the probe. Up to yes­ter­day, the of­fi­cers were in To­ba­go work­ing with de­tec­tives from the Spe­cial An­ti-Crime Unit (Sautt), the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, Crim­i­nal In­tel­li­gence Unit and the Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Facts

The Greenes, orig­i­nal­ly from Welling­ton in West Som­er­set, Eng­land, were at­tacked by un­known as­sailants around 2.30 pm on Sat­ur­day, a few days af­ter they re­turned to their house at Ba­co­let Cres­cent, To­ba­go. Both re­ceived chop wounds about their bod­ies and were air­lift­ed to Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mt Hope. Muri­um re­mained in sta­ble con­di­tion at the High De­pen­den­cy Unit at the fa­cil­i­ty, while Greene was in a med­ical­ly-in­duced co­ma at the near­by In­ten­sive Care Unit.