Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

With a po­lice man­hunt un­der­way for a sus­pect in an ar­son and as­sault against a moth­er and her teenage daugh­ter, a rel­a­tive yes­ter­day ap­pealed to the sus­pect to sur­ren­der.

“The most I could tell him is to give up he self. He do the wrong, and he have to pay for the con­se­quences. But I sor­ry to see that it reach to that, be­cause he do­ing good. He now build his house, and to give up every­thing, for what?” said Ivan Prince, the step­fa­ther of vic­tim Alex­is Al­leyne.

Po­lice said around 9.45 pm on Sat­ur­day, Al­leyne, 29, and her 14-year-old daugh­ter were at her home on Gam­ble Street Ex­ten­sion, Siparia, when the sus­pect beat the teenag­er be­fore turn­ing on her moth­er, who was al­so as­sault­ed. Po­lice said they ran out, but when the fire start­ed, Al­leyne re-en­tered in an at­tempt to put it out. How­ev­er, it spread through the house. She es­caped in­to near­by bush­es but suf­fered burns on her back, neck and shoul­der. The en­tire house was de­stroyed.

Six­ty-three-year-old Prince, who lives near­by with Al­leyne’s moth­er, was not at home when the at­tack oc­curred. How­ev­er, he was told that the moth­er ran to a neigh­bour to es­cape the sus­pect, but ran back to the house to save her daugh­ter.

“He held the 14-year-old and put a knife by her neck and pulled her in­side the house. The moth­er ran back in­to the house to res­cue her daugh­ter, and he let go of the child and took the moth­er.”

He said she man­aged to es­cape and ran through the bush­es.

Prince, who knows the sus­pect, claimed he had a bad tem­per. He said Al­leyne, a bar­tender, had al­ready bought her chil­dren school sup­plies. All of the chil­dren’s school­books burned up,” he lament­ed, adding, “She lost every­thing, she now buy a new stove, fridge, dou­ble-deck­er bed, wa­ter tank.”

Al­leyne’s younger daugh­ter was not at home. Siparia po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

Any­one will­ing to as­sist the fam­i­ly can con­tact 481-5101.