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Robert Reid, a Jamaican-born resident of St Maarten, who has been in custody for months now as a suspect in the death of his daughter, was found hanged in prison on Tuesday, the St Maarten police have reported.
Reid has been in custody since July. He was arrested following the discovery of the body of 13-year-old Tiffany Reid in a gully in the community of South Reward in St Maarten. "On Tuesday, October 25, at approximately 5.20 a.m. police patrols, detectives and the Forensic Department were directed to the Point Blanche Prison to investigate a case of death by hanging," the police report said. "On the scene the investigating officers encountered the lifeless body of Robert Reid hanging from a string that was tied around his neck."
Reid was being housed in the Medical Ward of the institution nursing the burn wounds he had sustained. It was those wounds that led the police investigating the death of his daughter to take him into custody.
Tiffany Reid's body was found burned almost beyond recognition. Shortly before police were called to the scene, Reid and his wife had gone to the police station in Phillipsburg to report that their daughter had gone missing. While there, police officers noticed that Reid had burn marks on his body.
After Reid left the station, detectives at the scene of the murder notified officers at the station that the child's body was badly burned. The police then immediately sent out word that Reid was to be found and taken into custody.
Ironically, it was on a Tuesday night that Reid was arrested by police and it was on a Tuesday that he body was discovered hanged in his cell. The police said they have launched an investigation to determine how Reid died.
