DOC, NURSE HELP KILLER By NALINEE SEELAL Wednesday, January 21 2015 A DOCTOR and nurse had been doing house visits to attend to the man who murdered 19-year-old Salma Chadee in Caroni last Saturday evening. These visits took place in the very house where the man shot the young mother of one to death. This is the information police are saying they now have as they continue their manhunt for the suspect whom they have now dubbed the country’s most wanted. He has been nursing two broken legs which, it is said, he sustained in a vehicular accident last November. The medical attention administered via the personal visits of the doctor and nurse to the Chadees’ residence was not restricted to his most recent refuge. Police are saying that following the accident last year the man was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope where he was informed his legs were broken. He was transferred to St Clair Medical Centre in Port-of-Spain, but by the time police found out that he was at that institution and went there, the suspect secretly discharged himself with the assistance of persons unknown and returned to Caroni where he was hiding out for the past few weeks. Head of the Northern Division Task Force Insp Roger Alexander went as far yesterday as lambasting the murdered girl’s relatives who he alleged assisted her killer who was already wanted for the murder of another woman, Sherlene Mahangoo-Charles, on May 8 last year and for which he was on the run from police. Alexander was emphatic: “The blood of that girl is on the hands of the suspect, the person who took him upstairs their home at Chadee Street, Caroni; the person who housed him all this time, the person who fed him, the doctor and nurse who visited him on location at Chadee Street, the man who threw him over the wall to get away, the driver of the getaway car and the neighbours of the dead woman at Chadee Street, who knew he was wanted for murder.” The Inspector was also responding to claims by relatives of the murdered young woman that the police failed to respond to information that the wanted man was hiding in Caroni. In fact, Alexander said persons who are making these allegations are simply not telling the truth and instead he turned the heat on all the persons who assisted and harboured the fugitive. Alexander said the police have received information that the man stayed at Salma’s home for the past three months and both the young woman and members of her family knew he was hiding from the police. According to Alexander the police also received information that a doctor and nurse would visit the suspect at Chadee’s home to administer medication and attend to his broken limbs regularly. He also added that one of Salma’s relatives had even recommended to the suspect that he eat a lot of garlic. That relative also cooked “soft food” for the suspect, because he was unable to eat food which was hard to chew. “The man loved tomato choka with hot sada roti with little salt and no pepper,” Alexander said, adding, the wanted man used to be dipping the roti in the choka and eating heartily. “Those persons knew they were housing and feeding a killer, yet they continued to do so and we also understand they switched their surveillance camera at the house conveniently to conceal the faces of visitors to the man, I want to say, we have the information and are working towards finding the killer with or without their ssistance.” Alexander revealed that on Saturday when Salma was shot and killed at about 9 pm, her relatives contacted EHS and not the police. He said there was hope that Salma would survive the shooting and everything could be concealed. The Inspector said in their haste to do so, persons in the house forgot to conceal the surveillance camera which captured the killer crawling down the stairs and being assisted by a relative to escape in a waiting car. Contacted for comment, Chief of Staff at the North Central Regional Health Authority (NCRHA) and chairman designate at this RHA Dr Andy Bhagwandass said all persons seeking medical assistance for gunshot and knife wounds at health institutions must be reported to the police. “If we are aware that it is a wanted person, obviously we will inform the police at that point. That is a well recognised procedure. If we suspect any sinister activity we are also duty bound to inform the police,” he said. Regarding the police’s claim that a doctor and nurse visited and treated the wanted man at home, Dr Bhagwandass this would only be possible if the medics were doing private work for the killer. Asked whether they could have known the man is wanted by the police, Bhagwandass said, “Well, I didn’t know. He could give a story that he fell from a mango tree and broke his two legs. We won’t expect a patient to lie about how or what has happened, unless of course we think he is hiding something,” he said. newsday.co.tt/frontpage/0,205855.html
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:35:12 +0000
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