Woman charged with policeman’s murder

Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard SC has advised police to charge a 33-year-old woman for the murder of 40-year-old PC Sherwin Lela. She was arrested on Thursday.

On September 3, at about 1.15 am, the woman and her six-year-old son were at Lela’s apartment in Oropune Gardens, when an argument broke out between Lela and herself. It is alleged she told police she was ordered out of the house by Lela and she started packing her belongings when she heard a loud explosion.

She allegedly said Lela screamed out and she panicked, grabbed her son, ran to a bedroom and climbed through the window of the apartment which, was three storeys high, and into a window a floor below.