SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A Princes Town fam­i­ly is in grief af­ter their 29-year-old loved one was stabbed to death by an­oth­er rel­a­tive dur­ing a row yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said Bri­an “Woo­gie” St Paul of In­di­an Walk, died at the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty. His 42-year-old rel­a­tive has been de­tained.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred af­ter 8 am at Fort George Road, In­di­an Walk.

Po­lice in­quiries re­vealed that fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment, St Paul beat the sus­pect with a cut­lass (planassed), fol­low­ing which the rel­a­tive ran off.

How­ev­er, St Paul chased af­ter the rel­a­tive who re­port­ed­ly picked up a knife and stabbed him three times.

St Paul’s broth­er, Michael, did not wit­ness the in­ci­dent, but he claimed he was told a dif­fer­ent ver­sion of how the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

He said he was told that the sus­pect at­tacked his broth­er with a knife and his broth­er, St Paul, struck him with a cut­lass. He claimed the sus­pect stabbed his broth­er three times in his chest. He said his broth­er ran off and the sus­pect chased af­ter him and struck him with a piece of wood.

Michael ad­mit­ted that St Paul used to ar­gue a lot and would of­ten is­sue threats. But he said de­spite this his broth­er was as harm­less as “a but­ter­fly.” 

“My broth­er, he had his faults, he is a mouther, as I said. My broth­er is just talk, talk. But to say to harm you, he is not that type of per­son. He just like to talk and grand charge. He will talk vi­o­lent talk, but he is not a vi­o­lent per­son.”

But Michael said he had a good re­la­tion­ship with the sus­pect who he de­scribed as qui­et.

He ad­vised peo­ple to walk away from ar­gu­ments.

“My ad­vice to peo­ple is trou­ble is a thing easy to come but very hard to go. When you have an ar­gu­ment with some­one the best thing is just to walk away,” Michael said.

St Paul’s broth­er Dane was shot dead sev­er­al years ago.