Five hours after Jamaican Natalie Treasure, 34, was released from the Gasparillo Police Station pending an inquest into the stabbing death of her twin girls’ father Michael Apphonso Williams, 23, she was reunited with daughters, Mikayla and Mikaylee.
The former security guard had not seen her one-month-old babies for more than a week.
Shocked relatives wept as female police officers carried the babies to meet their mother who was waiting in an unmarked police jeep outside the apartment at Union Road, Marabella where they were being cared for by their father’s aunts.
The police also handed over all of the babies’ clothes, bottles and a small yellow bag of Treasure’s clothes.
Treasure was in custody for nine days before the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions yesterday morning ordered that she be released pending further investigations. An inquest is expected to be held.
On January 22, Williams was stabbed during an argument and was found bleeding from a wound to his upper abdomen outside the apartment.
He was taken to the San Fernando General Hospital where he succumbed to his injury while undergoing emergency surgery. Reports are that Treasure had previously made a report against Williams, and the day of the incident, she acted in self-defence.
The deceased’s mother Janet Harriot, 42, and sisters Denise, 18, and Dacy-Ann Harriot, 20, all Jamaicans, pleaded with officers to leave the babies in their care when they arrived for them. Their loud sobbing attracted the attention of neighbours who assembled on the pavement.
“How can you take them from us? Why are you doing this to us? Leave them, don’t do this to us,” Janet cried.
At about 3.20 pm, the babies were given to Treasure under the watchful eyes of her attorney Dereck Dindial and officers of the Southern Homicide Bureau and Victim Support Unit.
Treasure and her babies were taken away by the police to an undisclosed location.
