Relatives of missing Laventille woman accuse Tobago cops of slow response

Rel­a­tives of miss­ing Laven­tille hair­dress­er LaTonya Chris­t­ian have ac­cused To­ba­go po­lice of drag­ging their feet in the search for the 23-year-old, prompt­ing a se­nior of­fi­cer to de­fend the in­ves­ti­ga­tion and ques­tion why she was re­port­ed miss­ing 15 days af­ter she was last seen.

At a can­dle­light vig­il held at the St Barb’s Bas­ket­ball Court in Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day, Chris­t­ian’s aunt, Lystra, chas­tised the po­lice, sug­gest­ing that had her niece been from To­ba­go, the as­sis­tance may have been greater.

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Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice miss­ing per­sons re­port, Chris­t­ian was last seen on Oc­to­ber 8 and was re­port­ed miss­ing at the Shir­van Road Po­lice Sta­tion on Oc­to­ber 23.