Victim to identify wife-beater's body as family refuses

For more than a week the body of Christopher Singuineau, has remained on ice at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, as none of his family was willing to identify him for an autopsy to be performed.

Today the only person who volunteered, was the woman police believe he attempted to kill during a domestic dispute at their Chaguanas home on Good Friday.

Police said despite reaching out repeatedly to Singuineau's relatives, they were unwilling to come forward.

The 30-year-old woman was rescued by members of the Central Division Task Force on Good Friday afternoon when neighbours called police over an argument between the couple.

When police got to the scene they knocked on the door, no one answered, but they could hear screaming from the inside. They walked to the side of the house and looked through a glass door where they saw Singuineau chopping the woman with a Chinese chopper.

They called on him to stop but he refused. Police broke through the door and shot him.

Both Singuineau and his wife were taken to the Chaguanas District Health Facility where he died, but she survived after treatment.