Po­lice are now seek­ing to amend the charge against Siparia ven­dor Mukey Pierre from kid­nap­ping with the in­tent to mur­der, to out­right mur­der, af­ter his vic­tim, Romeo Mitchell, died on Tues­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said Mitchell, who suf­fered spinal in­juries and bro­ken legs af­ter he was beat­en and dumped in the Pe­nal #25 Well on March 18, died around 9 pm at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Be­fore he died, he was able to give po­lice a brief state­ment last week­end.

The Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion Three, has now joined the case and in­ves­ti­ga­tors said an au­top­sy has to be done on Mitchell.

Once it is found his death was due to in­juries he suf­fered dur­ing the kid­nap­ping and beat­ing, a re­port will be sub­mit­ted to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions re­quest­ing the charge against Pierre be up­grad­ed to mur­der.

On Mon­day, Pierre, 24, ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Mar­garet Alert in the Siparia Mag­is­trates’ Court ac­cused of the at­tack against Mitchell.

Alert read the charged that be­tween March 17 and 18, he un­law­ful­ly car­ried away Mitchell from Vic­tor Street, Syne Vil­lage, Pe­nal.

The charge al­so stat­ed that he kid­napped Pierre with the in­tent to mur­der him at Mo­ra Dam Road, Siparia.

Pierre was sent to the St Ann’s Hos­pi­tal for a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion and is sched­uled to reap­pear in court on April 8.

Mitchell, who was hoist­ed out of the well by Siparia fire­fight­ers, spent his last nine days at the hos­pi­tal.