Jensen La Vende

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Sa­tan­ic!

This is how po­lice of­fi­cers de­scribed the scene at Fifth Street, Five rivers, Arou­ca on Mon­day night where a four-year-old was be­head­ed.

Po­lice said the child, Ama­rah Lal­litte four years had her neck sawed off with a knife by a 39-year-old man who is now in po­lice cus­tody.

Po­lice said at about 10.10 pm on Mon­day the child’s moth­er vis­it­ed the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion with her clothes tat­tered seek­ing help. Of­fi­cers who took her in­for­ma­tion es­cort­ed her to her home where the body of the child was found in one of the bed­rooms and her head in a bar­rel.

Po­lice said the child was killed in one of the two bed­rooms and then her body placed in an­oth­er and her head at an­oth­er lo­ca­tion.

Snr Supt Richard Smith told Guardian Me­dia that his of­fi­cers, on see­ing the grue­some dis­cov­ery, broke down and cried with some now need­ing coun­selling.

One neigh­bour, Es­hana Mo­ham­mad said the child would some­times come to her home and play with her teenage daugh­ter and lit­tle cousin.

She re­called hear­ing the man “chant­i­ng” be­fore the dis­cov­ery was made.

“That child used to call you dad­dy and that is what you do her boy?” she asked as she and oth­er neigh­bours gath­ered out­side their homes in dis­be­lief.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the scene around 1 am to­day, crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors were search­ing for ev­i­den­tial items which they had to aban­don be­cause of poor light­ing. They promised to re­turn lat­er to­day to com­plete their in­ves­ti­ga­tion.