WELL known Regent Street vendor and cricket mascot Joseph Taylor died yesterday after ingesting a poisonous substance. The man who was charged recently for the battering and hammering of his wife apparently took his own life after the woman decided to call it quits and move on with her life.
After being hammered into an unconscious state, she was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the GPHC, and he went on the run. After she hadregained consciousness, Taylor turned himself over to the police. When he appeared before the courts, the woman refused to give evidence in the matter and moved back in with him.
Sources say despite his promises to be a better husband, the relationship worsened, and a few weeks ago he locked her out of the home. She broke the lock to gain access, relatives said and he filed a report against her at the police station.
The police allowed the beleaguered woman to remove her belongings and she moved out of the home. Ever since then, he has been making repeated efforts to make contact with her, relatives confirmed, but this time around she refused to answer his calls.
Yesterday morning, however, relatives recalled that he called but all he said to her was “goodbye.” Taylor subsequently ingested the substance and was rushed to the hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival at the institution.