An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

ann-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

The mur­der of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Ran­dall Hec­tor on De­cem­ber 31, 2024, con­tin­ues to en­gage the po­lice.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have been dili­gent­ly fol­low­ing the guid­ance of Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard as they work to­wards solv­ing this shock­ing mur­der.

Dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin said, “We have reached the stage where the file went to the DPP, and we were giv­en cer­tain ad­vice, so we are now fol­low­ing up on that ad­vice and then prob­a­bly to get back to the DPP as soon as pos­si­ble.”

How­ev­er, he said “these things take a while.”

Ben­jamin as­sured in­ves­ti­ga­tors would be “very thor­ough and at least con­form to the stan­dard that is re­quired in terms of the rule of law.”

Hec­tor, a 43-year-old fa­ther of two was shot mul­ti­ple times around 7.30 pm as he left the Sev­enth-Day Ad­ven­tist Church, Stan­more Av­enue, Queen’s Park West.

Hec­tor and his wife, along with their two small chil­dren, had been walk­ing to their car parked at Al­bion Street when a black SUV and a Nis­san B15 pulled along­side Hec­tor’s car, and the oc­cu­pants opened fire on him, hit­ting him in the chest.

He was rushed to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he died at 7.51 pm.

Pri­or to set­ting up his own firm, RW Hec­tor & As­so­ciates, Hec­tor was em­ployed at the elite Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) as its le­gal di­rec­tor.