One to be charged, another released in bank worker’s murder

POLICE from the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region Three, have been instructed to charge a suspect and release another in connection with the murder of Scotiabank worker Crystal Giselle Peters.

On August 9, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) ordered the police to charge Wendell Anton Faria, 32, of Estano Circular in Valencia, having reviewed a file submitted the day before.

Once charged, he is expected to appear virtually before a master in the South Criminal High Court on August 12.

The other detained man is also from Valencia. But he was to be released on the afternoon of August 9 without charge, pending further inquiries.

Supt Persad, ASP Maharaj and Sgt Bridgemoham of the Homicide Bureau led the investigations and PC Noel was expected to lay the charge.

The two suspects were detained on August 5 in a co-ordinated exercise with Southern and Eastern Division police.

Peters, 37, of Marabella, was beaten and stabbed to death on July 27 at Reform Village in Gasparillo, where she had gone to check on the progress of her home, which was under construction.

Her two children were with her.

Three masked men accosted them and began beating her inside the concrete structure.

The men ordered the children into another room.

Peters’ body was later found with a knife in her neck on the first floor of the two-storey structure.

She worked as a premium loans officer at Scotiabank’s branch on High Street in San Fernando.