File sent to DPP in murder case

THE case file on the murder of mother of two Tenile Cupid have been sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to determine whether a Siparia man will be charged for her murder.

Cupid, 23, was a labourer with the Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) whose body was found last Wednesday dumped near a Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) installation in Santa Flora. Three weeks ago Cupid ended a three-year relationship.

Last Tuesday, she left the family’s home at Easy Street, Fyzabad in a man’s car, telling her mother she would return shortly. That was the last time her mother Nathalie Manzano saw her. The next day she reported Cupid missing.

One relative in a Facebook post said that Cupid had confined in her and said she was fed up with the abuse she endured over the last three years. The relatives said that on many occasions the man would beat Cupid and she would leave but return the next day to him.

Cupid was the mother of a six-year-old girl and four-year-old boy. She will be cremated on Tuesday after a funeral service at the Guides Crematorium in San Fernando.