Guyanese man held in T&T over beating to death of woman

(Trinidad Guardian) A Guyanese man is now in po­lice cus­tody af­ter he was found cov­ered in blood by po­lice of­fi­cers when they re­spond­ed to a do­mes­tic ar­gu­ment at a house in El Do­ra­do yes­ter­day.

The vic­tim, who has been iden­ti­fied as Nicole Hack­shaw of Kiskadee Dri­ve, Trinci­ty, lat­er died at hos­pi­tal.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 3.50 pm of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force re­spond­ed to a do­mes­tic vi­o­lence re­port at #268 East­ern Main Road.

Po­lice said up­on ar­rival they met the sus­pect stand­ing in the door­way wear­ing a white vest and a check­ered coloured short pants, cov­ered in blood.

Po­lice said the sus­pect made cer­tain ut­ter­ances and point­ed to a room in­side the house. The of­fi­cers checked the room and saw the vic­tim cov­ered in blood.

Hack­shaw had open wounds to the face.

Po­lice found and seized a piece of wood next to the vic­tim.

The sus­pect was sub­se­quent­ly de­tained.

Hack­shaw was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex in Mount Hope where died.

Po­lice say the man will be charged with mur­der.