Ann Noel, wife of for­mer world cham­pi­on box­er Claude Noel who ap­peared to have been abused at his home in Mal­abar, Ari­ma dur­ing the pe­ri­od of last year to this year, has said she will take le­gal ac­tion against the per­son or per­sons who are caught guilty of abus­ing her hus­band.

The mat­ter has now be­come the sub­ject of a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion and pub­lic con­cern. Ann said she will await the com­ple­tion of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion be­fore pro­ceed­ing with le­gal ac­tions if there is a need too.

Guardian Me­dia Sports learnt that of­fi­cers vis­it­ed Noel’s home on Sun­day morn­ing and ques­tioned his nephew Ren­ny Noel and the gov­ern­ment-em­ployed care­tak­er Maria John.

The ju­nior Noel said Maria ad­mit­ted to have been the one to take the video, how­ev­er, it was tak­en be­cause of an agree­ment be­tween her and Ann Noel to high­light the rants of the ex-box­er oc­ca­sion­al­ly.

Ann told Guardian Me­dia Sports her hus­band be­gan en­gag­ing in rants which be­came an­noy­ing to the care­tak­er and it was agreed that videos of his rants would be sent by Maria.

Ann said she be­lieves the video was tak­en for that pur­pose some­time last year, but it may have been sent to some­one else in er­ror, as she nev­er saw the video un­til it start­ed be­ing cir­cu­lat­ed on Sun­day.

She said Tues­day that Maria, who has fall­en ill since the video be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing, is ex­pect­ed to re­veal who she sent the video to, and who pos­si­bly would have re­leased it in­to the pub­lic do­main. She not­ed al­so that though there was evil in the in­tent by send­ing the video out, she hopes it will be a mes­sage to the gov­ern­ment to treat her hus­band prop­er­ly.

Noel en­joyed an il­lus­tri­ous ca­reer in the Light­weight di­vi­sion that spanned from 1973 to 1984 and cul­mi­nat­ed with the World Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (WBA) Ti­tle against Mex­i­can Rodol­fo Gon­za­lez.

The re­sult of the fight showed a to­tal dom­i­nance by Noel with the scores read­ing 145-140, 145-141 and 144-141, all in favour of Noel.

For his achieve­ment gov­ern­ment named the high­way in To­ba­go af­ter him- called the Claude Noel High­way.

How­ev­er he fell on dif­fi­cult times dur­ing his re­tire­ment and lost vi­sion in one eye from glau­co­ma. Sight in his oth­er eye, his wife said, went soon af­ter when doc­tors mis­tak­en­ly cut the reti­na dur­ing surgery.

Ann said her hus­band was nev­er giv­en prop­er treat­ment at the lo­cal hos­pi­tals.

She al­so ac­cused gov­ern­ment of shab­by treat­ment, say­ing, al­though her hus­band was giv­en the Achiev­ers Grant of $2, 500 month­ly for per­sons mak­ing sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try, her hus­band went through hell to re­ceive pay­ments.

On Sun­day, the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices said the ex-box­er re­ceived the Achiev­ers Grant and a pen­sion. They not­ed that there was a time where Noel did not col­lect his pay­ments, prompt­ing them to con­tact Ren­ny to col­lect on his be­half.

Ann said how­ev­er, her hus­band was turned away from pay­ments on many oc­ca­sions when he showed up for cheques.