…duo died from blunt trauma to head, incised wound to neck – PME
…killer to face murder charges today
Cuban national Yoel Rodrigues Barientos aka “Joel Rodrigues”, who has been arrested for the murders of his 34-year-old partner Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter Larissa Singh, has since confessed to the heinous crime.
The Cuban national was apprehended on Monday in Amelia’s Ward, Linden after the Police had issued a warrant for his arrest for the murders.

During interrogation, Barientos told detectives that on Christmas Night he got angry after the now dead woman informed him that she was going to visit a relative. This, he noted, led to an argument, and it was then that he picked up a hammer and dealt the woman several blows to her head.
She collapsed on the bed and died instantly.
He further told detectives that the crime was witnessed by the dead woman’s daughter, and in order to prevent her from testify against him, he attacked and stabbed the 11-year-old to the neck and body with a knife. She died moments after her mother. He, however, denied that he sexually molested the child. According to a post-mortem examination, Krishnaran died of blunt force trauma to the head, and her daughter of an incise wound to the neck and blunt force trauma.
After committing the acts, Barientos reportedly went into his ailing father-in-law’s room and stole an undisclosed sum of money, which he used to travel to Linden. His intention, he stated, was to cross the border into Brazil.

He is expected to be arraigned at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today.
It was reported that the bodies of Krishnaran and Singh were discovered at about 21:00h on Boxing Day at their Princes Street home in Lodge, Georgetown. Based on initial reports received, the father of the dead woman told Police that the suspect and his daughter were heard arguing at about 17:30h on December 25. This was followed by a scuffle between them.
However, the man did not take it seriously, since the couple would normally fight, and, as such, he retired to bed. At about 08:00h on December 26, the father woke up, but did not check on his daughter and granddaughter, since he thought that she had gone to work and had taken her daughter with her.
At approximately 20:30h, the man went to his daughter’s room to check on them, and it was then that he made the gruesome discovery.
His daughter and granddaughter were lying motionless on a bed and on the ground respectively.
