Barbados authorities to launch full probe into Belle’s murder

The Royal Barbados Police Force on Saturday confirmed that 64-year-old Brenda Duncan Belle, who was brutally murdered last week Tuesday evening (April 30th) by her estranged husband, was also stabbed during an altercation with the said man three nights prior to her death.
The Barbadian authorities stated that Belle had moved out of her home and was seeking refuge at a friend’s house after she survived a violent attack by the same perpetrator last Saturday night in the Fairchild Street bus terminal, where she was stabbed several times.

Guyana Times International understands that the incident was reported to police, but nothing was done to protect the woman. Her second attack three nights later proved fatal. In light of the circumstantial evidence, the Royal Barbados Police Force expressed its intention to launch a full internal investigation into the circumstances that led to Belle’s death.
Speaking to the Barbados Saturday Sun, acting assistant commissioner with responsibility for crime, Mark Thompson confirmed that the investigation into Belle’s death would be carried out to make sure there were “no deficiencies” in the way investigators carried out their duties.
The Barbados crime chief reportedly disclosed that although an internal investigation into police methods was nothing new. Belle’s death had attracted public attention and Thompson said it will be thoroughly investigated.
Belle, of St Barnabas, St Michael and formerly of Lot 50 Russell Street, Charlestown, Georgetown, was slashed to death while taking refuge in the home of a friend, Herman Bentick, at Cutting Road, Haggatt Hall, in the same parish on April 30th.
It was reported that Alan Belle, the woman’s husband for more than 12 years, stormed into the house, inflicting lethal wounds about her entire body, allegedly with a cutlass.
Brenda was involved in trading for more than 20 years. It was while she was travelling to and from Guyana, she met Belle.
It was reported that the couple had constantly been encountering marital issues, so they decided to separate. The woman was thus visiting Guyana in the hope that when she returned, everything would have worked out; since she thought that both she and Alan needed some space. The woman leaves to mourn her three daughters and grandchildren.