Camille Clarke

"Don't be ashamed or shy. Go and make a re­port against what­ev­er abuse you are go­ing through." This ad­vice was giv­en yes­ter­day by Lisa Williams, whose broth­er Dwayne Hill was stabbed to death by a close fe­male rel­a­tive at Alex­is Cir­cu­lar, Va­len­cia Plan­ta­tion, Va­len­cia.

Up to late yes­ter­day, an 18-year-old woman re­mained in po­lice cus­tody in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent. Hill, 31, a watch­man, was at his home on Good Fri­day when he had a heat­ed ar­gu­ment with a woman. She al­leged­ly snatched a bread­knife and stabbed him eight times in the chest. He was tak­en to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal, where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

In an in­ter­view at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, Williams said her broth­er had suf­fered both phys­i­cal and emo­tion­al abuse at the hands of a woman for the past few years. Williams said the woman al­so broke his right arm. "The same day he was stabbed, he was threat­ened by the woman," she said.

"She al­ways used to beat him up and abuse him. His right arm was bro­ken by the woman. She used to run him down. "He told me he didn't know what go­ing on with her. He told me in front of her if some­body kill him, it would be her. He de­cid­ed to set­tle down with her and that was the last time I saw him alive."

Williams said Hill did not want to go to the po­lice be­cause he feared he would be ridiculed for be­ing abused by a woman. "How­ev­er, I need to say the Va­len­cia po­lice did a good job," she said. "She was run­ning away and they held her." Williams said the woman was ap­pre­hend­ed by rel­a­tives and hand­ed over to the po­lice.

"It is a tough sit­u­a­tion we are go­ing through now," she said, de­scrib­ing Hill as "a pleas­ant, qui­et per­son who used to make us smile."