The sol­dier want­ed for ques­tion­ing in con­nec­tion with the mur­ders of twelve-year-old Levi Lewis and his moth­er Abi­o­la Cud­joe has sur­ren­dered to po­lice.

Ac­com­pa­nied by his at­tor­neys Ki­ran Pan­day and Surya De­onar­ine, the 35-year-old man sur­ren­dered to po­lice around 2.32 pm yes­ter­day.

He was in­formed of his rights and priv­i­leges by in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cer In­sp Ma­haraj, who took pre­lim­i­nary in­for­ma­tion from him.

The sol­dier was then sent to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for a med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion.

Once in­ves­ti­ga­tions are com­plete, a file will be sent to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions by se­nior of­fi­cers.

Lewis, a stu­dent of St Do­minic’s RC School in Pe­nal, wrote the SEA ex­am­i­na­tions last month and had hoped to pass for his first choice, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege.

He lived with his moth­er, Cud­joe, his three-year-old broth­er and a 35-year-old man about a mile from the school. Lewis was ac­cus­tomed to walk­ing to school with oth­er pupils.

In a sto­ry car­ried by the Catholic News yes­ter­day, the prin­ci­pal of St Do­minic’s RC Lynn Mood­ie de­scribed him as a pop­u­lar stu­dent.

“He was a very out­go­ing child, out­spo­ken, out­go­ing, al­ways around; you could say the whole school knew Levi,” Mood­ie said.

She added, “He was a child not afraid to ask ques­tions and make com­ments…he was a child like that. He was a nice child. I knew him from the In­fants De­part­ment.”

The at­tack on the child and his moth­er oc­curred around 1.50 am at their home at La­choos Road, Pe­nal. Po­lice said Lewis had a wound to his neck, while his moth­er had in­juries to her hands and chest. The front door was bro­ken in. Lewis’ broth­er was found asleep in a room. No weapons were found on the scene, po­lice said.

Be­fore her death, Cud­joe made a post on April 25 say­ing she was abused in “so many ways.” She said she had been in a re­la­tion­ship for nine years and was beat­en for eight of them.

“Sat­ur­day he break my hand, kick me in my bel­ly and drag me out the house with my three-year-old. Now we r (sic) liv­ing house to house and po­lice say­ing stay away from the home.”

In the post, Cud­joe asked for ad­vice or help. Her rel­a­tives al­so said she had a re­strain­ing or­der against a male rel­a­tive on April 25.

Homi­cide Re­gion Three of­fi­cers are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

—RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

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