RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

An­tho­ny Wil­son’s kind­ness cost him his life, af­ter an ex-con­vict to whom he gave lodg­ing ear­li­er this year fa­tal­ly stabbed him yes­ter­day.

Af­ter be­ing stabbed, Wil­son, 63, was heard ask­ing the killer: “Why you did this to me?”

He died a few min­utes lat­er be­fore the po­lice ar­rived on the scene.

The sus­pect, who was re­leased from prison ear­li­er this year, is now on the run.

Po­lice said around 12.15 am, Wil­son got in­to an ar­gu­ment with the sus­pect, who held him down be­fore plung­ing a knife in­to his chest.

Wil­son’s care­tak­er, Eliz­a­beth Al­la­me­ny, heard the com­mo­tion and ar­rived just in time to see the sus­pect stand­ing over her em­ploy­er.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the sus­pect had been liv­ing with Wil­son and Al­la­me­ny at For­est Re­serve, Fyz­abad, in a con­crete and wood­en house sit­u­at­ed in­side a gat­ed area owned by Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um.

Al­la­me­ny, 48, told po­lice she ran to as­sist Wil­son when she saw him bleed­ing, but the sus­pect grabbed her by the neck and be­gan hit­ting her. She man­aged to fight him off be­fore run­ning away. The man ran away with the mur­der weapon, leav­ing Wil­son bleed­ing on the couch.

Al­la­me­ny called the Fyz­abad Po­lice Sta­tion and of­fi­cers led by In­sp Roland Ram­lo­gan, Sgt Ri­car­do Ban­mal­ley, Sgt Dhans­ingh and WPCs Si­mon and La Rode vis­it­ed the scene. They found Wil­son slumped on the couch bleed­ing from the chest.

Al­la­me­ny, who was limp­ing from her in­juries, was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where she re­ceived med­ical treat­ment. She was too dis­traught to speak yes­ter­day.

How­ev­er, a fe­male rel­a­tive said she was trau­ma­tised and ex­pe­ri­enc­ing flash­backs of her near-death ex­pe­ri­ence. She dis­missed ru­mours that the mur­der was the re­sult of a love tri­an­gle.

Say­ing Wil­son had a soft heart, the rel­a­tive said he took the ex-con­vict in­to the home on Al­la­me­ny’s rec­om­men­da­tion. The house has no elec­tric­i­ty and Al­la­many cooked dai­ly for Wil­son and cleaned his home. The rel­a­tive said Wil­son nev­er spoke of hav­ing chil­dren but once told them he had a sis­ter.

Say­ing he was a qui­et man, the rel­a­tive said: “It is sad to see this hap­pen to him.”

She said Wil­son of­ten walked from For­est Re­serve Junc­tion to his home. He was not ill and was kind to every­one, she added.

Dis­trict Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Nali­ni Ma­haraj viewed Wil­son’s body and or­dered it re­moved to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre.

An au­top­sy has been sched­uled to be done on Mon­day. Homi­cide of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.