Man hired to “take out” woman in bitter car dispute captured

Sep 28, 2014 News

A long running dispute over a Mazda Axela motor car turned ugly yesterday with one party accusing the other of contracting a killer to take her out.
The plot unraveled when the alleged contract killer was caught yesterday in a Robb Street apartment where his target, a woman, was supposed to be.
The would-be killer admitted after a beating that he was sent by a man who picked him up near the Bourda Market and offered him “something” to “take care of the woman”, with whom this man has an ongoing court dispute.

The badly wounded man who was reportedly sent to attack the woman.

The suspect is currently in custody at the Alberttown Police Station where he confessed to being sent by a man fitting the description of the other party in the car dispute.
The issue has its genesis in an arrangement inked earlier this year between the woman and a pawnbroker involving the motor car.
The pawnbroker has alleged that the woman had pawned the car to him and did not pay him when the stipulated time was up, a claim that is being disputed by the woman.
The matter took an interesting twist two months ago when the woman forcibly took possession of her car after claiming that the pawnbroker was using the vehicle and had damaged it.
The police were called in and accused the woman of stealing her car, detaining her for three days at the East La Penitence Police Station and impounding the vehicle at Brickdam.
After weeks of back and forth investigations, the matter was sent to the Director of Public Prosecution for advice.
Meanwhile, the man, sensing that since the woman was the registered owner of the car and there was the likelihood that there was no criminal intent in the matter, filed a civil action in the high court to recover the money he claimed was not repaid.
Eventually the DPP concurred that there was no basis for a criminal charge and advised the police accordingly.
The car was subsequently returned to the woman on Friday.
Apparently angry at the decision of the police to return the car to the woman, the pawnbroker decided to take matters into his own hands.
It is alleged that on Friday he trailed the woman and subsequently launched a physical attack on her in full view of several startled onlookers outside her attorney’s office on Croal Street.
Thankfully for the woman, a passing police mobile patrol intervened and the matter was dealt with at the Brickdam Police Station where the man was charged with assault and is to appear in court on Tuesday.
But it did not end there.
Yesterday, while the woman was at the Brickdam Police Station, she received a call informing her that a man was caught in her friend’s Robb Street apartment which she had just left.
She hurried back only to hear the shocking revelation that the man was sent to the apartment to attack her.
Kaieteur News was told that the man was nabbed by a relative of the owner of the apartment who had gone there just in time to see him crawling through a window.
An alarm was raised and several neighbours circled the would-be assassin and dealt him a beating.
When this newspaper arrived on the scene, the man was lying on the parapet outside the apartment building, surrounded by curious onlookers.
When questioned, he said that he was picked up by a man near the Bourda Market and taken to the apartment, where he was instructed to attack the woman who was described to him.
“He buy a sno-cone fuh me and tell me dat he and de woman deh in court and he want me fuh harass she and search up fuh she documents,” the man told a reporter from this newspaper.
His remark startled several onlookers who were moved to remark, “look how cheap people life get, when a man could tek a sno-cone fuh kill somebody.”
He said that upon completion of the job, he was supposed to meet the man at an agreed rendezvous.
However, no weapon was found on him and there is speculation that he stashed it while hiding out in the yard before he was captured.
The man was eventually escorted to the Alberttown Police Station where he faces break and enter charges.
Up to last night the police had not questioned the man who the would-be assassin had implicated.