Derek Achong

The brief but tur­bu­lent re­la­tion­ship of a Va­len­cia cou­ple end­ed trag­i­cal­ly yes­ter­day when a 32-year-old man was stabbed to death by an 18-year-old woman. This in­ci­dent takes the the na­tion's homi­cide toll for the year to 95, com­pared to 104 for the same pe­ri­od last year.

Dwayne Hill got in­to an ar­gu­ment with a woman at his Alex­is Dri­ve, Va­len­cia, home at around 10.30 am. The ar­gu­ment went on for an hour then es­ca­lat­ed in­to vi­o­lence. The woman told po­lice Hill emp­tied a bot­tle of gaso­line in­to her mouth. He was about to ig­nite the fu­el when the woman grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed him in the face, head and chest.

Neigh­bours who heard the com­mo­tion called the po­lice and Hill and the woman were tak­en to hos­pi­tal. Short­ly af­ter noon, Hill suc­cumbed to his in­juries at the San­gre Grande Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal. The woman is ward­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion. Al­though Hill's death has been ini­tial­ly clas­si­fied as a mur­der, in­ves­ti­ga­tors were up to late yes­ter­day piec­ing to­geth­er de­tails of the in­ci­dent to de­ter­mine whether the woman act­ed in self de­fence.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are ex­pect­ed to get ad­vice from the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on whether charges should be charged. Sgt Ray­mond Austin, Cpl Ju­nior Bernard and WPC Ayana John­son are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.