According to residents last Sunday morning, the same day of the
gruesome murder, the young man went to church as usual and performed
his regular chores, putting everything in place for weekly Sunday
morning mass.
“The Catholic people use to pay him to clean up and fix up
the altar for service,” said one of the teen’s relative
as she shook her head in disbelief. “Up to Sunday morning
he was there ...
“He put water in the vase, he do all that he had to do then
went and perform mischief.
“Everybody in the village here knows he does look after the
church.”
On the fateful day the innocent youngster was lured away from his
home on Henry Street West, Orange Valley by two teenagers of the
district, one of them the quiet sexton who said “good morning
and good evening” to the adults in the village.
Luke’s partly decomposed body was found some 48 hours later
in a shallow grave in a cane-field a mere distance away from his
home.
He was buggered.
An autopsy later showed that a cane stalk had been inserted into
Luke, rupturing his intestines and subsequently causing him to bleed
to death.
Orange Valley R.C. Chapel belongs to the Couva parish.
Checks for comments at the main church, St. Paul’s Roman Catholic
Church of which Monsignor Kenneth Spence is parish priest proved
futile, as Spence was not in office.
However the secretary answering the telephone told TnT Mirror she
could neither confirm nor deny claims by villagers of the tightly-knit
community that the teen was the sexton at the church. |
