Arima man charged with ”Boyo” murder

A 38-year-old Ari­ma man has ap­peared be­fore the High Court charged with the mur­der of Wil­fred Robert Madoo, known as “Boyo”, fol­low­ing a fa­tal stab­bing in­ci­dent in Ari­ma last month.

Ker-Marc Al­lain ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Dal­rym­ple in the High Court, North A, on June 11, where he was for­mal­ly charged with the of­fence.

The court set a suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing for De­cem­ber 14.

Madoo, 37, of Va­len­cia, died af­ter be­ing stabbed dur­ing an in­ci­dent at a bar in Ari­ma on Mon­day, June 1.

Po­lice said Madoo sus­tained in­juries dur­ing the al­ter­ca­tion and was tak­en for med­ical treat­ment but lat­er suc­cumbed to his in­juries on the same day at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors ar­rest­ed one male sus­pect in con­nec­tion with the killing on Wednes­day, June 3, at the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was led by of­fi­cers at­tached to the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI), Re­gion Two.

The mat­ter was su­per­vised by ASP (Ag.) Vic­tor, Woman In­spec­tor Sylvester, Sergeant Ra­moutar, Sergeant Rad­haykissoon and Po­lice Con­sta­ble Subi­ah.

Po­lice said Al­lain was sub­se­quent­ly charged by Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble Bill of HBI Re­gion Two af­ter le­gal ad­vice was re­ceived from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard, SC, on June 8.

The case now moves in­to the pre-tri­al stage, with the suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing ex­pect­ed to de­ter­mine whether there is enough ev­i­dence for the mat­ter to pro­ceed be­fore a judge and ju­ry.

Au­thor­i­ties have not re­leased ad­di­tion­al de­tails sur­round­ing the cir­cum­stances that led to the fa­tal stab­bing.

Po­lice con­tin­ue to urge mem­bers of the pub­lic with in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ing to se­ri­ous crimes to co­op­er­ate with in­ves­ti­ga­tors as in­quiries con­tin­ue.