Kevon Felmine

A 31-year-old mar­ket ven­dor was in po­lice cus­tody up to late yes­ter­day for re­port­ed­ly set­ting a fe­male rel­a­tive on fire. Po­lice said the woman re­mained ward­ed in a crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. A po­lice re­port said An­drea Badree was set on fire on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon by the rel­a­tive. The sus­pect, who al­so re­port­ed­ly es­caped in a white van af­ter the in­ci­dent, was held around 8 pm by po­lice. No charges were laid up to yes­ter­day and po­lice said the man had re­fused to sup­ply ad­e­quate in­for­ma­tion for their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around 12.40 pm Badree, a moth­er of two, was at home when she and the sus­pect got in­to in a heat­ed ar­gu­ment. The man al­leged­ly took a con­tain­er of gaso­line and threw it on her. He then set her on fire. The woman was rushed to the hos­pi­tal where she was re­port­ed to have suf­fered 40 per cent first de­gree burns to her up­per body. Cor­po­ral Ram­lo­gan is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.