By Rabindra Rooplall

AN ex-convict who was released from prison two months ago was killed Saturday night by a jealous lover who stabbed him to the neck while he was in bed, police said.Dead is 42-year-old Frederick Peters of Lot 90, Recht-Door-Zee, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD). The father of two was discovered dead by police at 22:30hrs in the house and was whisked away to the Ezekiel Funeral Home by undertakers.

In police custody is his lover 47-year-old Colette Parks. She initially told police that the two had an argument and Peters stabbed her in the arm and thigh and she retaliated by stabbing him in the neck. However, detectives found that her version of the story had a number of inconsistencies.

According to the dead man’s 17-year-old son, Akeem Messiah, on the day his father was killed, he was spending some time at his mother’s home in Sophia. Usually, he said, his father would call him daily and his phone is never turned off.

“When I call my father phone, it went straight to voicemail. When I call his lady phone it ring out, that was at 10:00 am. I didn’t take it for nothing, I call back at 12:00 again and his phone went to voicemail. Now when I went home in the night, all I see is a set of police van in front the house,” he explained.

“The police tell me I can’t go into the house because my stepmother and father had a fight and she ‘jook’ he.”

The teen said he last saw his father alive on Friday and the Saturday morning when he awoke, his father had already left the house. He then escorted his stepmother into the City to purchase some items and he left her at Demico by Stabroek Market since she was waiting on his father to meet her.

“I then decide to go into Sophia by my mother to spend some time,” the young man said.

When questioned how long he was living with his father and stepmother, Messiah said since his father was released from the Georgetown Prison on May 3, 2016.

“This lady and my father have been having a relationship for the past eight years because she used to visit him in the prison. On the day my father was released and I go there, she was already at the jail waiting on my father. She then take he in Parfaite where she was renting a house,” the teen explained.

VIOLENT
Reflecting on the tumultuous relationship his father had with his stepmother, Messiah said it was one that was violent with constant attacks on his father.

“My father told me he never decided to react because he done went to jail and feel what it is and didn’t want to go back because he come out to take care of his children. My father can’t even get a call on his phone, she always pelting away his phone, she always ‘jooking’ him or throwing hot water on him, and even tell him that she will kill him if he ever has another woman with him,” the tearful teen said.

He disclosed that his stepmother Parks was deported from the United States 10 years ago and has no close relatives here. He said her children and immediate relatives are all in the US.

Meanwhile, the cousin of the deceased, Lisa Edwards told this publication that she had received a call from Parks expressing her frustration that Peters was having friendly relations with other women.

Edwards said that Parks related that a woman called her cell phone and was abusive to her.

“I tell her don’t worry about that, I’m going to come up at their house and we will talk about it. I tell her don’t worry about anything you know the man sleeps daily at you and is your man.”

She was supposed to visit the couple Sunday, Edwards said, and Peters was supposed to call her since they had planned to visit a bar-be-que a relative was hosting Saturday.

“Is about 04:00hrs Sunday my aunty rap on my door and tell me he died and I started to cry, me and my relatives then come over to the Best Hospital and he was transferred to Ezekiel mortuary,” she said.

She then contacted Parks, she said. “When we spoke she reminded me about some girl that call her phone. I ask her where was Fredrick at that time, she said he was in the kitchen, I said ow man you could have called me and let ah take a taxi to come over and this could not have happened, how you make it reach suh, then the phone cut off.”

NO BLOOD ON HANDS
She concluded that her cousin who was strong built and over six feet tall was killed in his sleep since when she visited him in the morgue, there was no blood on his hands or any mark of violence on his body to suggest a fight.

According to neighbours, Parks had moved into the apartment late last year and was living with someone. She then moved out in January 2016 and later moved back in. However, months ago they saw a new occupant sharing the apartment with her. He was identified as the same Frederick Peters who was killed Saturday night.

“This woman don’t talk to anybody in the place, is four apartments the building got and you can always hear loud noises and confusion from their section on a daily basis,” one neighbour said.

“The rate they were behaving I know someone would have gotten injured, but I didn’t expect murder.”

In February, 2007, Peters escaped from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court lockups but was apprehended by police. His address given back then was 3715 North Ruimveldt. It is alleged that on February 20 at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court lockups, being in lawful custody pending criminal charges of robbery under arms, he escaped.

He was brought before then Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on September 8, and was refused bail. Peters who was granted $550,000 bail by Magistrate Oneidge Walrond-Allicock at Court Six was waiting in the court lockups to be transported back to prison when he reportedly escaped. He reportedly ran through a gate at the back of the court and headed up Croal Street before going onto King Street where he disappeared. On his first appearance in Court One, Peters was refused bail on ten counts of robbery under arms, one count of threatening a police officer, abduction and having a dangerous weapon without reasonable excuse.

It is alleged that between May 24 and September 4, 2006, he robbed 10 persons, carting off with over $1,088,000 in jewellery, a cellular phone, cash and other items.

He also reportedly threatened City policeman, Quincy Trotman, had a ‘Rambo’ knife with no reasonable excuse and abducted Adilah Sabree. In court speaking about why he escaped, he said, “My daughter was ill, she had one more day to live and I beg the magistrate to allow a police to escort me to the hospital.”