Man Stabbed to Death in Hope Creek

Two separate murders were also recorded in the South; one in Santa Cruz Village on the Southern Highway and the other just outside of Dangriga in the village of Hope Creek. On Friday evening, police responded to a report at the Southern Regional Hospital where a man had been stabbed and was being rushed into the operating theatre for treatment. Peter Pau, a resident of Hope Creek Village, did not survive the injury. News Five’s Duane Moody reports.

Duane Moody, Reporting

What triggered the fatal stabbing of Peter Pau remains a mystery for his friends who say that he was a person who had no beef with anyone. In fact, according to Pau’s landlord, they were socialising earlier that day before Pau left with a friend.

Voice of: Gilbert Parham Sr., Landlord

“We mi di cook cause everybody mi di…well yo know we take we lee drink. I noh di hide from that. And that’s that I got mi partner and he always come around and we enjoy wiself. The man sleep up deh dah night and dah mawning early, the man clean up mi yard bwai. Ih burn mi, ih hurt mi because dah mi partner; he come yah every morning. I can’t even sleep yet. Dah soh ih happen. Dehn mi di sit down yah and I left dehn, but I neva hear no hard talking cause dehn bwai di enjoy dehn self. So I gone inside and gone sleep. And then my wife tell me dehn gone by the shop and dah from dehn di thing happen.”

Hilberto Saravia

Pau was found with a stab wound to his upper abdomen area.

Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch

“He was at Hope Creek when he got into an altercation with a male person who inflicted the stab wound to him. Peter Pau later succumbed to his injuries. An investigation was carried out and one person has been detained.”

Police investigation has since led to the arrest and charge of tour guide Hilberto Saravia, who is from Hope Creek Village. Duane Moody for News Five.