Rhon­dor Dowlat

Ch­agua­nas car deal­er Sheron Sukhdeo was de­tained yes­ter­day by po­lice of­fi­cers in con­nec­tion with a re­port of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

Up to late last night he was at the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion be­ing ques­tioned but no charges were laid.

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, a team of po­lice of­fi­cers from the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion, led by In­spec­tor McIn­tyre, went to the busi­ness­man's home near the Ch­agua­nas Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School.

He was lat­er hand­cuffed and tak­en to his busi­ness­place on the Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road and then to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion where he was ques­tioned overnight.

In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers have ob­tained an of­fi­cial state­ment from the al­leged do­mes­tic vi­o­lence vic­tim, a 28-year-old moth­er of two.

The state­ment was tak­en from her on Sun­day fol­low­ing an in­ter­view she had with Head of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, Snr Supt Jayson Forde. In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers were al­so able to ob­tain med­ical records from the re­spec­tive health in­sti­tu­tions, in­clud­ing the Ch­agua­nas Health Cen­tre, to add to their file.

The woman and her two chil­dren – ages sev­en and five – are said to have been un­der heavy po­lice guard since Sun­day.

Ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing, the woman took to Face­book to post re­cent pho­tographs of her­self show­ing blue black marks, cuts, bruis­es and a blood­shot eye that she said she sus­tained last week dur­ing an al­leged con­fronta­tion with a close male rel­a­tive.

Speak­ing out pub­licly for the first time, the woman al­leged she has been a vic­tim of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence for the last 12 years.

Thou­sands of com­ments were made in sup­port of the woman and her chil­dren and on Sun­day the po­lice in­ter­vened, say­ing she would al­so re­ceive coun­selling from the Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit and the chil­dren would be re­ferred to the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit and the Chil­dren's Au­thor­i­ty.