After Pascal Justin’s fatal stabbing at La Pointe, Dennery on Wednesday, his son, Melvin Justin, called for tougher penalties for violent crimes.
Justin told reporters the crime situation in Saint Lucia was ‘heartbreaking’ and lamented that the authorities were not doing much about it.
“They would just put the guys in the prison to eat taxpayers money, get fat, look nice. They come out a few years later and repeat the exact same thing,” he told reporters on Thursday, hours after the death of his father.
Justin indicated that stricter laws would reduce the crime spike in Saint Lucia.
“A lot of those homicides wouldn’t have been happening,” he declared.
Pascal Justin’s stabbing death brought Saint Lucia’s homicide count for the year to 60.
The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) said at about 7:00 pm on Wednesday, Dennery Police Station officers learned that Pascal sustained chest wounds during an altercation and was conveyed to the Dennery Hospital.
He later succumbed.
Police have since arrested a twenty-four-year-old male from La Pointe, Dennery, in connection with the homicide.
The deceased’s son disclosed that his father and mother were looking forward to going on a sunset cruise Friday, before celebrating their twenty-seventh wedding anniversary the following day.
Any third-party or user posts, comments, replies, and third-party entries published on the St. Lucia Times website (https://stluciatimes.com) in no way convey the thoughts, sentiments or intents of St. Lucia Times, the author of any said article or post, the website, or the business. St. Lucia Times is not responsible or liable for, and does not endorse, any comments or replies posted by users and third parties, and especially the content therein and whether it is accurate.
St. Lucia Times reserves the right to remove, screen, edit, or reinstate content posted by third parties on this website or any other online platform owned by St. Lucia Times (this includes the said user posts, comments, replies, and third-party entries) at our sole discretion for any reason or no reason, and without notice to you, or any user. For example, we may remove a comment or reply if we believe it violates any part of the St. Lucia Criminal Code, particularly section 313 which pertains to the offence of Libel. Except as required by law, we have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of any content you as a user may post, or any other post or reply made by any third-party on this website or any other online platform owned by St. Lucia Times. All third-parties and users agree that this is a public forum, and we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any content you as a user may post, or any other post or reply made by any third-party on this website. Any posts made and information disclosed by you is at your own risk.
…. and the man whom he stabbed was of age to have been his father, but that’s if he ever had a proper concept of “father” 🤔
The acting police commissioner should never come out and devil this plans to fight crime in the island remember the criminals out there are listening to the news
Everyone in authority has resigned and is waiting for the criminals to provide respite from the suffering. Is St. Lucia a real country?
Obviously I don’t read the crime news only the sports pages. Still ignorance is bliss!