11th
September 2012
Busy Weekend
For Cops
Stan Bishop
The Royal Saint
Lucia Police Force seems to have its hands filled
these past few weeks.
A slew of incidents
over the past weekend just added to the heavy
workload the Force has inherited in recent weeks.
The past weekend
of unfortunate happenings began on Friday, September
7 when officers attached to the Marigot Police
Station responded to a 7:35 pm report made about
a vehicular accident at La Croix Maingot.
According to
police, twenty-six-year-old La Croix Maingot
resident Jeff Rene was riding a Kawasaki 1000
motorcycle – registration number PJ 3046
– along the La Croix Maingot road when
he lost control and ran off the road.
Rene sustained
serious injuries as a result of the impact and
was taken to the Victoria Hospital where he
was treated and admitted in a critical condition.
Around 8:20 pm the next day, Rene succumbed
to his injuries. A post mortem is scheduled
to take place shortly.
Meanwhile, residents
of Forestiere say they are still in shock following
the discovery of the lifeless body of a woman
over the past weekend.
About 9 pm last
Friday, police confirmed that the lifeless body
of a middle-aged woman was discovered in a wooded
area in the Forestiere community.
The dead woman
has been identified as forty-three-year-old
Tathenao Eugene. Upon hearing the news, scores
of onlookers showed up close to the scene where
the body was discovered on Friday evening.
Details surrounding
Eugene’s death are still sketchy as police
say they are still pursuing the matter. An official
statement on the matter, The VOICE was told
yesterday, will be released by police shortly.
Eugene’s
death brings the total number of homicides for
the year thus far to twenty-seven.
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