This husband was killed while trying to protect his wife’s home business.
REINOFER Hughes got a second lease on life when he won the battle against prostate cancer two months ago.
However, two cutlass-wielding thieves cut short Hughes’s renewed life at his Lopinot home on Thursday night. He was killed from a chop to the neck and stomach while trying to protect his wife’s livelihood.
Police reports are that Hughes, 57, was killed by two men posing as customers of his shop-JB’s-around 8.50 p.m. The shop is at the side of Hughes’s Dunderhill Road, Lopinot, home, just off the relatively busy, well-lit road going into Lopinot.
The cutlass attack occurred ten minutes before the couple usually closed the shop.
Although Hughes worked as a Paragon security officer, his 44-year-old widow, Joanne, who operated the small shop, described him as “the backbone of the business”.
Speaking at the home yesterday, Joanne Hughes said now she “does not want to have no part of the shop no more”.
It is her only means of income.
Image courtesy Trinidad Express
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