(Trinidad Guardian) An elderly T&T national resident in Canada, who has been returning home every winter for the past several years, was tied up, gagged and beaten to death at his Upper Bournes Road, St James, home sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
But police believe 72-year-old George Hinkson’s attacker/attackers may have come to rob him and did not intend to murder him. His body was found by relatives around 9 am on Wednesday, but they could not say how long he may have been there before being found.
Speaking with the media at the scene was Hinkson’s cousin Maureen Johnson, who said she was supposed to have telephoned him Tuesday night but got caught up with her daily routine and forgot.
Johnson said her cousin was the type who, although he kept to himself during his returns from Canada, was friendly and well liked. She added that her cousin’s only fault was that he was a “no-nonsense man.”
