Two in custody over Anna Catherina triple homicide

Jennifer Persaud

A second person has been arrested, police said today, even as the results of post-mortem examinations revealed that the mother and her two children, who were found brutally murdered on Saturday evening in their Anna Catherina home, died of haemorrhagic shock due to the wounds they received.

Jennifer Persaud, 41, and her sons Afridi Bacchus, 6, and Jadon Persaud 18 months were discovered on Saturday evening in the woman’s bedroom with stabs wounds and slit throats. The woman was found lying in a pool of blood on her bed,