(Trinidad Guardian) Hours before appearing before a Point Fortin magistrate for being an uncontrollable child, a 14-year-old Granville girl spent Tuesday night assisting police with their investigation into the murder of her 21-year-old boyfriend.
Jasent Clement, a security officer of South Trace, Chatham, was chopped about the head earlier that night, allegedly by one of the girl’s boyfriends. So far, police believe the murder was due to a love triangle.
Reports stated that Clement got a text message Tuesday afternoon and called his employer to take him and the girl to Belle Vue Beach, Granville, around 6 pm. While sitting at the end of the road around 7 pm, however, someone snuck up behind them and chopped him. The girl told police she ran off and hid in the bushes, while his killer threw his body into the sea.
However, she said she could not identify the person. After some time had passed, she told police she called his employer, who took her back to his home to inform his sister. Relatives called police, who joined in a search along several beaches in Point Coco and around 8 pm his sister, Marlene Singh, found his body 20 feet away from the road.
Speaking at a relative’s home yesterday, his uncle Edward Clement said Jasent had recently started working as a security guard offshore.
Around the same time he met the girl, who told his sisters she was 21. He said Clement had been living with his sister since his mother died five years ago and his father the following year. He added Clement was even warned about the girl. He said he believed the truth was not being told by the girl, as it was strange that they were sitting together when Clement was chopped and the attacker did not go after her.
He added that the direction in which his body was found after it was allegedly thrown into the sea was also opposite to the flow of the tide. “I feel she had something to do with it. She set up that play for him to get killed and when she came back here and told us he was killed and she showed no remorse.
“How come they did not kill her and she witnessed everything? We have already got information from the people close to where she lives as to what is going on with her,” Edward said. One of Clement’s friend said his death had once again shaken the community as he was the sixth resident to be murdered for the year.
On July 8, Stephon Sinnette was shot dead at his home hours after he almost chopped his neighbour Ricardo Rodriguez to death.
One week later, Grace Toussaint, 55, her husband Peter Baptiste, 59, son Jeremy Toussaint, 24, and mother Leena Peters, 75, were gunned down at their home. It was believed that Jeremy witnessed Sinnette’s murder and had given a statement to police the day before. Police have identified a suspect who has been on the run since.
A resident said yesterday murders have almost spoilt the country life there as the community was not accustomed to violence. He said Clement was a very nice and quiet person, who never had problems with anyone.
