Tre­vist Nicholas of Mar­aval has been charged with the mur­der of 27-year-old Kiefer Wil­son.

A me­dia re­lease from the TTPS yes­ter­day con­firmed that he was charged on Fri­day af­ter con­sul­ta­tions with Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Sab­ri­na Dougdeen, and is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly in the South Crim­i­nal High Court.

Wil­son and Nicholas were in a re­la­tion­ship, but rel­a­tives claimed she end­ed it some time ago. The re­lease stat­ed that around 10 pm on Au­gust 13, Wil­son and a male com­pan­ion were dri­ving south along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Debe when an­oth­er dri­ver col­lid­ed with their ve­hi­cle.

Fol­low­ing the col­li­sion, po­lice said an ar­gu­ment en­sued on the high­way, dur­ing which the dri­ver of the oth­er ve­hi­cle as­sault­ed Wil­son with a span­ner. Fear­ing for their lives, Wil­son and her male friend at­tempt­ed to flee on foot, but the dri­ver of the oth­er ve­hi­cle drove af­ter them, run­ning over Wil­son.

An au­top­sy re­vealed that she died from mul­ti­ple blunt-force trau­ma in­juries. Rel­a­tives had de­nied that Wil­son and her male com­pan­ion were in an in­ti­mate re­la­tion­ship. They said the man came from Ja­maica to sur­prise her for her birth­day.

Wil­son’s birth­day was on Au­gust 10.

Mean­while, Wil­son’s fu­ner­al arrange­ments were still be­ing fi­nalised yes­ter­day.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion 3 are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.–SASCHA WIL­SON