TT PM outraged at murder of bank employee

TT Prime Minister outraged at murder of bank employee

The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr. Keith Rowley led the nation’s outrage at the murder of a 20-year-old bank employee, whose body was found among boxes at a warehouse in the heart of the capital late Thursday.

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Rowley said the death of Shannon Banfield, who had been reported missing on Monday after leaving work and going to the store where the body was eventually found “brings home to us most starkly the fact that none of us is immune to the evils of the criminal mind and action.

My heart goes out to the distressed family and community who have to live and relive this unspeakable horror. My Government, as indeed the country, expects that our law enforcement personnel to leave no stone unturned in order to bring the perpetrator/s of this dastardly deed to well-deserved justice of the severest kind in the shortest possible time,” he added.

Police said that two employees of the company, whom they had earlier described as “persons of interest” had surrendered on Thursday night.

Banfield’s co-workers in a statement, described the death as “a tragedy of immeasurable proportions and we are at a loss for words to express our shock and sadness.

 

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