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As news spread that Richard Blanc’s bullet-riddled body had been discovered at his home at Hilltop Drive, Maturita, Arima, yesterday, his wife arrived, crying out for answers.
Nazmool Estick, 57, said the couple had been married for close to 12 years and were in the process of extending their modest lodging when tragedy struck.
Blanc’s body was found several hours after gunshots were heard around 2 am in the area.
Neighbours alerted police around 1 pm, after they went to look for Blanc and found him inside the house.
Blanc, 57, a former convict, met Estick whilst incarcerated and they entered into a two-year courtship before his release in 2012, following which they married.
She cried, “When he not wukking, he don’t go nowhere.”
Estick said she was accustomed to hustling to make ends meet, and as such she would go down south for a few days before returning to Arima.
Contacted by the neighbours about Blanc’s killing yesterday, she wailed, “He does be real good, everybody could tell yuh that.”
But she admitted, “Yes, he have he ways. He go say ‘babes, gimme a $20 ... I going out the road and come back home.”
The couple last spoke on Monday night.
Estick said she cautioned Blanc tirelessly about staying out of trouble.