Three days after La Brea vendor Heather Barriteau went missing, she was reunited with her husband Devon Paul on Monday.
But there were conflicting accounts yesterday as to why Barriteau went missing. Her husband said she was kidnapped and assaulted while police said the woman reported that she was never missing.
Speaking by telephone yesterday, Paul said police contacted him after Barriteau showed up at the San Fernando General Hospital with several injuries including bite marks on her chest.
Barriteau, 35, of Sobo Village, was last seem liming with a man at the Edge Bar along Mucurapo Street, San Fernando last Friday. She was expected to meet a female friend later that day before returning home. However, she did not go home that night and calls to her phone were unanswered.
Paul said after she left the bar, she stopped a silver Nissan Sunny B-14 along Mucurapo Street and asked to be taken to Point Fortin. She asked the driver to pick up her friend at another location.
However, the driver proceeded in the opposite direction where he picked up two other men before taking her to a wooden house in Marabella.
He said she was kept there for three days and the men robbed her of her mobile phone and cash. They eventually dropped her out in the town.
Paul said: “They told her come out car but one of them tried to hold her back. It was a fellah who was passing that saw and began to shout, ‘Aye, what allyuh doing the woman?’
“He pulled her away and took her by the Carat Shed, and put her to sit down. She was embarrased to let the fella know what happened.”
“She was not thinking straight and she just wanted to come home. Somebody text me that they saw her in Marabella by Carat Shed and it looked to people like she was liming.
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“When she reached by hospital, she told the nurse to call me but they said they would call the police instead. The police came and picked her up and took to the police station and took a report. I took her to the La Brea Police Station and she told them what happened” Paul said.
Contacted yesterday, police said Barriteau showed up at the San Fernando Police Station after she heard reports of her disappearance. The woman reported that she went to lime and was never missing.
Paul said he was happy for the safe return of his wife, but was concerned about her mental well being, saying that she is already struggling to deal with the assault while people were saying negative things about her disappearance.
“She is home here resting. Since she reached home, she only crying right through. She wants to forget what happened because they told her hush her mouth or they would kill her.
“Right now, how people putting it across on Facebook is they believe she lying and she leave me... I am just glad to know that she is back home alright and they did not kill her. It was hard on her.”