(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Stuart Young said yesterday the murder of State witness Candy-Ann McIntyre on Tuesday was a tragedy, but added that she was not in the witness protection programme.
Police, however, suspect that the order to kill McIntyre at Santa Cruz on Tuesday came from prison and two inmates were still being questioned up to last night.
McIntyre, 36, was killed shortly after her 12-year-old son’s primary school graduation.
Her son’s chilling reaction, as he cried while holding his mother’s lifeless body, was recorded by people in the area and posted on social media.
No one has been held for the killing but the Express was told investigators visited the two men at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca on Wednesday because they may have information about the incident.
Investigators said these men may have information that could identify the shooters.
An autopsy on McIntyre’s body is expected to be done today at the Forensic Science Centre, St James.
McIntyre gave evidence in the trial of three men for the 2005 murder of her brother, Colin De Landro.
Police say she refused witness protection despite the fact that another man, Adilio McIntyre, who also witnessed the 2005 murder, also disappeared on May 3, 2012.
Prior to his disappearance he told friends and relatives he had received death threats about his potential testimony.
He was last seen leaving MovieTowne, Port of Spain, having spent some time with a woman named Shenelle Worrell, who he had recently met.
Police said Worrell had links to one of the men charged with De Landro’s murder and she was recorded as visiting him in prison.
Adilio McIntyre has not been seen since.
About a month after he was last seen, Worrell was found shot dead.