Trinidad: Cop in custody, wife’s throat slit

Killed: Vera Golabie
Killed: Vera Golabie

(Trinidad Express) A police constable turned up at the Matura Police Station this afternoon, to say that he and his wife were involved in a fight and she was injured.

Police officers went to the location of the “fight” to find that the woman’s throat had been slit. She was dead on the ground at the side of a house at Church Street, Matura.

The officer is in custody.

 
At around 4.15p.m. the officer went to the station and said that some time earlier, he was involved in a fight with his wife and that she pulled a knife. He said that during the fight, she was injured.

The woman has been identified as mother of two Vera Golabie.