By Claudia Liburd
Nevis Reporter - SKNVibes.com
(Charlestown; Nevis): On Tuesday, Feb. 20 2007, police arrested and charged former Leeward Islands spin bowler Warrington Phillip of Jessups Village with the murder of his wife Shermel Phillip, committed on Friday, Feb. 16, 2007.
Barbadian Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Stephen Jones performed an autopsy on the late Shermel Phillip, and ascertained that death was due to stab wounds to the neck with haemorrhage and shock.
The 27-year-old Phillip of Nevis was found dead in her car in the yard of her Brown Hill home. One neighbour said that their suspicion was aroused after noticing that the engine of Phillip's car, parked in her yard, was running for a prolonged period with hazards blinking.
Sources say Phillip was set for an evening out with work colleagues before her untimely passing.
Father of the deceased, calypsonian Keith "Dis N' Dat" Scarborough said that after the murder of his daughter he was physically shocked and traumatized.
He said he spoke to her just before seven o'clock on Friday night when she was leaving her home in Brown Hill to go to a dinner at Four Seasons.
"She called me about seven o'clock on Friday night and told me that she is going to a dinner at the Four Seasons. ~~Adz:right~~The manager was leaving so they had a farewell dinner for him and she told me she will call me when she comes back. Commissioner Fahie's wife called me at about a quarter to eight where I was working and told me to "come now, your daughter is in the car and it looks like she is dead." It appeared as if the incident happened shortly after she spoke with me and she jumped into her car," said Scarborough.
Before her untimely death, Phillips was the assistant manager at the Four Seasons Resort for Conference Room and Services. Her death is the first murder recorded in Nevis for the year and the second within the Federation.
Several members of the community are outraged at Phillip's violent death such as Opposition Member, Mark Brantley who described the act as 'unimaginable'.
~~Adz:left~~"The whole of Nevis mourns with the families affected. The entire Nevisian family at home and abroad feels the pain that has been wrought by these tragic events. For a community unaccustomed to violence of this kind and to the untimely death of our young people, one can well understand the orgy of grief that now stalks the land. Today around Charlestown faces were glum, smiles were few, the sense of loss and grief was palpable."
"May their souls rest in peace and may their families find comfort in the certain knowledge that this too shall pass and that these two young people so touched us all while they were with us that their memory shall live on in the hearts and minds of all Nevisians," said Brantley.
This weekend Nevisians mourned the loss of two sterling young people, Shermel Phillip and further Coordinator of the Music sector at the Department of Education on Nevis, Herald "Maestro" Sutton who was found dead at his home on Sunday due to severe hypertensive heart disease with sudden cardiac arrest.
