(Trinidad Express) – Paul Hubert Bristol’s rage at his ex-girlfriend was apparently so intense that it endured the process of a trip from Trinidad to England, where she lived, and where he went to allegedly stab her to death.
The body of 27-year-old Camille Mathurasingh was found last Friday, in the flat she shared with her parents, by officers who had earlier been to the scene when Bristol, 24, crashed his car after the murder last Friday.
Bristol was at the time driving a Nissan Micra in Whitechapel, three miles away from the scene of the murder on Arrow Road, Bromley-by-Bow, in London’s East End.
Bristol, who was not seriously hurt in the accident, appeared before district judge Alison Rose at the Thames Magistrates’ court in London, yesterday morning, charged with murder.
He was remanded in custody and is to appear at the Old Bailey on July 14. No application for bail was made by his lawyer.
Mathurasingh, who was once employed with First Citizens Bank (now called First Citizens) in Trinidad and with PriceWaterhouse Coopers in Bermuda, had been living with her parents in England for about a year.
The dead woman’s parents recently sold their house and bought a small flat, with the intention of eventually returning to Trinidad.
A source told the Express that Bristol and Mathurasingh were in a relationship while she lived in Trinidad, but had broken up before she left.
A week ago, Bristol entered Britain on a visitor’s visa and was due to return to Trinidad later this month. He had made it known that he had arrived to see his “girlfriend’‘.
Following Friday’s car crash, in which the Nissan Micra careened out of control and flipped over in the busy main road at a traffic-light junction, officers found Bristol near the car and advised him that he needed to be treated at a hospital.
He spent the weekend at the hospital being treated for cuts to his face, neck and hands, where he was also interviewed by police about Mathurasingh’s stabbing. They then charged him with murder.
When asked in court for his address, Bristol, who was wearing a white T-shirt and white track suit bottom, replied: “Not in this country.”
A post-mortem on Monday showed that Mathurasingh died from multiple stab wounds.
Neighbours at Arrow Road spoke of seeing Mathurasingh regularly out and about on the street, referring to her as “a quiet woman”.
Her sister was a regular guest at the house, and neighbours often saw the sister’s two children being taken to school.
But on Friday, they remarked that the children had not been seen for about two weeks.
One neighbour told the East London Advertiser: “I came home to find police swarming all over the place. We are trying to get back to our normal lives in this street, but it is terrible with the woman’s body found next door.”
