Trinidad woman’s husband charged with murdering her

Stacy Gopaulsingh with her common law husband Shane Gomez
Stacy Gopaulsingh with her common law husband Shane Gomez

(Trinidad Express) Shane Gomez has been charged with the murder of his wife, Stacy Gopaulsingh, who was hacked to death in her home two days before Christmas Day last year.

Gopaulsingh, 36, a judicial support officer, died from multiple chop wounds in the fatal confrontation which occurred in her home on Poui Road in St Mary’s, Moruga, in the early hours of December 23.

The mother of one, who was also three months pregnant, was almost decapitated and her hand severed in the attack.

Gomez, 42, appeared in a virtual court hearing yesterday, shortly after the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions issued the instruction to the investigating police detectives who submitted the case file.

In the hearing, the charge of murder, which was laid by WPC Valdez of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations of Region Three, was read to him and Gomez was not called upon to enter a plea.

The case was postponed to April 14.

Gomez was detained on Thursday and remained in police custody until the charge was laid.

On December 23, police and Gopaulsingh’s relatives were told that she received a phone call around 2 a.m. and went outside their small wooden and concrete house where she was heard speaking.

Police were told that Gopaulsingh’s three-year-old daughter remained on the bed with a relative until three men entered the house and pointed a firearm at them.

The relative claimed that he grabbed the child and escaped by jumping through a window of their home but Gopaulsingh could not be saved.