Ak­ile Si­mon

A 25-year-old To­ba­go man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Scar­bor­ough mag­is­trate to­mor­row charged with at­tempt­ing to mur­der Eng­lish cou­ple Pe­ter Greene, 65, and his wife Muri­um, 59, at their To­ba­go home last week­end. The man was charged by po­lice on Fri­day night, hours af­ter in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived in­struc­tions from the of­fice of Act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pu­bic Pros­e­cu­tions Car­la Brown-An­toine.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the ac­cused of Ar­gyle vil­lage al­leged­ly con­fessed to of­fi­cers that he was in­volved in the in­ci­dent. Yes­ter­day a source close to the in­ves­ti­ga­tions de­scribed the at­tack against the Greenes as "the el­e­ment of suprise." Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the ac­cused told them he went to the Ba­co­let Greenes res­i­dence to rob and not with the in­ten­tion to kill.

Sources said the ac­cused saw the cou­ple asleep in their porch and launched an at­tack on them with a cut­lass. They (the Greenes) ap­par­ent­ly were read­ing the dai­ly news­pa­pers and may have fall­en asleep when they were at­tacked," the source said. On Thurs­day night, the of­fi­cers were able to se­cure an al­leged con­fes­sion state­ment from the ac­cused. The at­tack against the Greenes caused an in­ter­na­tion­al out­rage, which led to the British and Aus­tralian For­eign of­fices up­dat­ing their trav­el ad­vi­sories.