Update 4:26 PM, February 8:
Another suspect arrested for the kidnapping and murder of 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt has died.
According to a statement from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), 36-year-old Joel Balcon, from Oropouche Road, Sangre Grande, who was one of the suspects detained in connection with Andrea’s death, is in the Eric Williams this afternoon. deceased. Medical Science Complex, Mount Hope.
The TTPS said Balcon, who was arrested at his home on January 31, tried to escape after being arrested and sustained injuries, which required him to be admitted to hospital.
The TTPS said around 8:20 p.m., nurses at the hospital found he was not responding. They tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at 2.32pm.
The TTPS said Balcon was one of several people detained by police after Bharatt was reported missing on January 29.
The TTPS said Balcon was arrested between 2007 and 2017 and charged with 70 offenses, including multiple charges of rape, kidnapping, false imprisonment, robbery and aggravated robbery. At the time of his death, 45 of these cases were pending.
Bharatt, a clerk at the Arima Magistrate’s Court, was last seen on January 29 when he entered a taxi in Arima and has not been seen since. Her decomposed body was found on February 4 in an abyss on the Heights of Aripo.
The TTPS said an autopsy performed on Bharatt’s body today revealed that the cause of death was unconvincing. It was also confirmed that all her organs were intact.
Original story:
Another suspect arrested for the kidnapping and murder of 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt has died.
The man, who had 70 other cases, was questioned in connection with Andrea’s death. Andrea’s body was found at the bottom of an abyss in the Heights of Aripo after she was abducted on January 29 while taking a taxi.
The suspect was kept in hospital after police said he tried to escape and had to be subjected.
Another suspect, 35-year-old Andrew Morris, was also detained by police for questioning and died after being ‘subjected’ twice by police while in custody. Police officers said he “began to act violently”, struggled with officers and that he needed to be subjected.
More than 240 officials and volunteers from the Trinidad and Tobago Hunters Association combed the forests of Aripo yesterday after another remains were found not far from where Andrea was discovered.
A resident who helped with the search found additional bones that were taken to determine if it was a human. The team covered nine kilometers during the exercise.
After the discovery, officials then found more bones near the site.
It’s an evolving story; more as it is updated.