24-y-o murder accused found hanging in Trinidad jail cell

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Trinidad police are investigation the death of a 24-year-old murder accused who was found hanging in his cell late Wednesday.

It is said that Kevin Hospedales, who had been committed to stand trial for the murder of his 60-year-old father, Harold, was found hanging at the Remand Yard in Golden Grove, Arouca.

Hospedales is reported to have been sharing a cell with eight other prisoners, who on return from their exercises, found him motionless in the cell with a piece of cloth tied around his neck.

Hospedales was charged with the murder of his father at their Pepper Village, Esperanza, Gran Couva home, in central Trinidad, on July 10, 2011.