Two suspects are expected to be taken before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today to be charged with the murder of RK security guard Simone Coleridge, a senior police source said yesterday.
Coleridge was discovered dead by a nurse aide early last Wednesday morning at Uncle Eddie’s–a privately-operated senior citizens’ home in Tucville. Her hands and feet were bound and newspaper stuffed into her mouth, which was also gagged. Relatives, who identified her body, said Coleridge’s face bore wounds they could not bear to look at.
The first suspect was taken into police custody sometime on Friday. A senior police source yesterday said that the second suspect was apprehended on Saturday morning. Investigations conducted by police, the source explained, produced information which led police to the second man. The men are expected to appear before the court today charged with the capital offence of murder.
At the time Coleridge was attacked, she was on duty at Uncle Eddie’s. The senior citizens’ home was robbed of several electrical appliances by the attackers. But police later recovered the stolen articles in an abandoned house in the Tucville area.
A post-mortem examination conducted on the woman’s body has revealed that she died as a result of asphyxiation due to compression injuries to the neck and suffocation compounded by blunt cranial trauma.
