CoP: Two more to be charged in Eversley case

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says two ad­di­tion­al men will be charged in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Head­quar­ters.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said the TTPS has tak­en full cog­ni­sance of na­tion­al con­cerns sur­round­ing the case, adding that the Ser­vice un­der­stands the se­ri­ous­ness of the in­ci­dent, the anx­i­ety it has caused, and the pub­lic ex­pec­ta­tion that all re­spon­si­ble in­di­vid­u­als will be held to ac­count.

He said the up­date fol­lows fur­ther con­sul­ta­tions with Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard, SC, which re­sult­ed in for­mal in­struc­tions to lay charges against a 24-year-old scrap iron deal­er of Clax­ton Bay and a 20-year-old con­struc­tion work­er, al­so of Clax­ton Bay.

The two men will be charged along­side a 28-year-old mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer who is al­ready in cus­tody.

CoP Gue­var­ro said all three ac­cused will face joint charges of mur­der, rob­bery with vi­o­lence, firearm traf­fick­ing and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion. He con­firmed that the mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer re­mains the on­ly of­fi­cer charged in the mat­ter at this time, while the oth­ers are civil­ians.

The Com­mis­sion­er said the charges arise from co­or­di­nat­ed in­quiries and re­cov­ery op­er­a­tions car­ried out over sev­er­al days, dur­ing which 44 firearms, large quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and mul­ti­ple mag­a­zines were re­cov­ered across Clax­ton Bay, Gas­par­il­lo, Makale and sur­round­ing ar­eas.

He added that As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice Ma­haraj of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions is for­mal­ly pre­fer­ring the charges.

CoP Gue­var­ro said once the process is com­plet­ed, the three men will be tak­en be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court.

He said the TTPS con­tin­ues to pur­sue all re­main­ing leads, in­clud­ing iden­ti­fy­ing any ad­di­tion­al fa­cil­i­ta­tors and re­cov­er­ing out­stand­ing firearms, while as­sur­ing that up­dates will be pro­vid­ed as the in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues.

Anusha Ever­s­ley, 42, was dis­cov­ered dead at the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Head­quar­ters on La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do, around 4.40 am on Sun­day. She was a moth­er of three chil­dren, aged 18, 15 and sev­en, and had over 19 years of ser­vice.

An au­top­sy re­vealed she was beat­en and stran­gled to death.