Port Kaituma tragedy … Cops accused of ignoring report of man’s threats to kill family

Linus La Cruz and his family in happier times

Police are being accused of ignoring the initial reports from a 12-year-old that her father had assaulted her mother and was threatening to kill her entire family on Friday night, just a short while before the man kept his word and set their home on fire at Port Kaituma.

Port Kaituma businessman Linus La Cruz, 50, locked the grille barricades on his Main Road Port Kaituma home and set it ablaze, with his wife and four children inside.

The charred bodies of housewife Lurlene La Cruz, 39, and her children Lea La Cruz, 14, Labron La Cruz, 8, Lavette La Cruz, 3, and Levon La Cruz, 1, were later removed by