Three men are currently in police custody for the fatal stabbing of Garfield Pickering who was killed in Blanchisseuse on Saturday after he confronted a group that illegally entered a beach house there.
According to reports, around 6 am, Pickering, 47, left his family’s Blanchisseuse home to check on a beach house he manages in the area.
When Pickering entered the beach house he saw a group of people already there.
He called the beach house’s owner to confirm whether he had given the group permission to be there. The owner said he did not and Pickering approached the group and asked them to leave.
A scuffle ensued and Pickering was stabbed repeatedly with an icepick.
He ran out of the beach house and collapsed on the roadway. A passerby took him to the Blanchisseuse Police Station.
Pickering was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A relative, who requested anonymity, said it was disheartening to know that Pickering was killed when he went to do an “honest day’s work”. Pickering was described as a “family man”.
Investigations are continuing.