Cops rescue kidnap victim

Western Division police rescued a kidnap victim and detained two suspects minutes after she was abducted on Tuesday.

The shaken woman thanked the police for the quick intervention which resulted in her rescue. Yesterday she was resting comfortably at her Diego Martin home.

The two suspects were being questioned yesterday by a joint team of Western Division and Anti-Kidnapping Unit police.

Around 4.10 am on Tuesday Alicia Ameeral, 48, of Diego Martin, manager of Xante private members club at Ariapita Avenue, Port of Spain, was driving her Matrix along the Diego Martin Main Road when three men in a white panel van blocked her way.

She stopped and the three men broke her car window, threatened to kill her, and told her to hand over the keys for the club, which she did, begging them to spare her life.

They bundled her into their van and kept threatening her.
As the driver headed for St James at a dangerous speed, police on patrol intercepted the vehicle at Coronation Street. The police rescued Ameerali. who was screaming hysterically. She was treated at hospital and reunited with anxious relatives.
The suspects were taken to the St James police station and put in a cell.