TRINIDAD WOMAN STRANGLED IN BARBADOS

TRINIDADIAN Marcelle Ragbir-Smith, 75, mysteriously disappeared on Monday October 12, from Farm Road, St George in Barbados where she was last seen between 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm driving a silver Toyota Yaris car. Her body was found three weeks later, with an autopsy confirming not only her identity, but that she had been murdered strangled. A suspect has been arrested and charged for her killing.

When Ragbir-Smith first went missing, her three adult children who all reside abroad, immediately swung into action and two of them Tanya and Roger flew to Barbados assisting the police force there in leaving no stone unturned in the search for their beloved mother. Tanya, who arrived from London where she resides, told Barbados Today, “It’s been very hard because we don’t live in the country so myself and my brother have just arrived here so we’re just trying to focus on what we can do to get information to locate her. She’s my mother, she’s happy, she’s wonderful.

She’s missing and we want to find her,” A breakthrough in the case came when on October 18 Loop News reported that “Marcelle Smith’s car was found today. The silver Toyota Yaris with registration number P2346, was located in the Charleston Park/Charleston Garden area, in Culloden St Michael, even though she was not found.”On October 22, still full of hope, the family appealed through Loop News for the safe return of their loved one and issued a statement saying: “She is a strong, formidable woman. Our father is unwell and he is fully dependent on her. She has been missing since last Monday night.