Police in St Vincent and the Grenadines were on Wednesday charging with murder, a man accused of beheading a 21 year old woman on the island on Monday.
Hospital clerk Stacy Wilson was returning home from work when she was attacked and killed by a man travelling on the same bus with her.
Eyewitnesses say Sean Samuel, the man detained by police shortly after the slaying, beheaded Ms Wilson in front of horrified onlookers at a bus terminal in the Vincentian capital Kingstown.
Advances rebuffed
The police say both victim and attacker had been travelling on the same bus, and that the extremely brutal attack came after the young woman rebuffed advances made by the man said to be in his early thirties.
Deputy Police Commissioner Lenroy Brewster has confirmed that witnesses reported that the cutlass-wielding assailant pulled Stacy Wilson off the idling bus, cutting off her head after earlier chopping off her right hand at the wrist.
One reporter Glenford Prescott who arrived at the scene shortly after, said people there had tried to intervene, but in vain:
Attempts to stop the killing failed
"Persons made an attempt to try to stop the killing by throwing missiles at him, bottles and stones and other things like that. But he seemed bent on committing the act".
Mr Prescott said Samuel carried out the dastardly act despite being struck several times by those trying to restrain him.
Vincentian police confirmed that Sean Samuel has been in trouble with the law before, and was deported from the United States.
Deputy Commissioner Brewster said Samuel was also known as abdul Rahim, and was a muslim.
"He migrated to Trinidad and he was in the United States. We understand that he had some training, he was in Pakistan" Mr Brewster told BBC Caribbean.
As expected, the family of Stacy Wilson are devastated by her slaying.
Journalist Prescott said the media had tried to respect their privacy: "They are very distraught I can tell you".
And the police say, people who witnessed the killing remain traumatised.
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13 December, 2006 - Published 20:08 GMT
Murder rap for beheading act
Police in St Vincent and the Grenadines were on Wednesday charging with murder, a man accused of beheading a 21 year old woman on the island on Monday.
Hospital clerk Stacy Wilson was returning home from work when she was attacked and killed by a man travelling on the same bus with her.
Eyewitnesses say Sean Samuel, the man detained by police shortly after the slaying, beheaded Ms Wilson in front of horrified onlookers at a bus terminal in the Vincentian capital Kingstown.
Advances rebuffed
The police say both victim and attacker had been travelling on the same bus, and that the extremely brutal attack came after the young woman rebuffed advances made by the man said to be in his early thirties.
Deputy Police Commissioner Lenroy Brewster has confirmed that witnesses reported that the cutlass-wielding assailant pulled Stacy Wilson off the idling bus, cutting off her head after earlier chopping off her right hand at the wrist.
One reporter Glenford Prescott who arrived at the scene shortly after, said people there had tried to intervene, but in vain:
Attempts to stop the killing failed
"Persons made an attempt to try to stop the killing by throwing missiles at him, bottles and stones and other things like that. But he seemed bent on committing the act".
Mr Prescott said Samuel carried out the dastardly act despite being struck several times by those trying to restrain him.
Vincentian police confirmed that Sean Samuel has been in trouble with the law before, and was deported from the United States.
Deputy Commissioner Brewster said Samuel was also known as abdul Rahim, and was a muslim.
"He migrated to Trinidad and he was in the United States. We understand that he had some training, he was in Pakistan" Mr Brewster told BBC Caribbean.
As expected, the family of Stacy Wilson are devastated by her slaying.
Journalist Prescott said the media had tried to respect their privacy: "They are very distraught I can tell you".
And the police say, people who witnessed the killing remain traumatised.
This monster will burn.
Edited by Q Steph