The fear of witchcraft and Obeah overcame a San Fernando community yesterday after a human skull and a red candle was placed in front a family’s home. Police are investigating the discovery of what appeared to be a male skull but like Springvale residents, they believe it might be a case of Obeah or a horrible prank. According to reports, Samuel Oudit, 27, of Hubert Rance Street, awoke for work around 5 am and when he opened his front door saw a skull with a lit candle on a stairway.
Further up a hill, just outside the San Fernando Methodist Primary School, a muddy white crocus bag was found. Oudit said: “I got up this morning around 5.05 am, opened the gate and saw the skull on the step. I thought a cat was watching me and when I went outside and watched it again, I saw it was a human skull. “ I was going to touch it but I didn’t because I realised it still had teeth. There was a red candle on top of it but it was an old skull. There was no skin or hair on it and it was like whoever had it, had it for a while.
“Either it is some people trying to do some kind of witchcraft business or Obeah but whoever that skull belonged to, they were trying to be wicked.” Oudit’s younger brother Joseph, 19, said he could not attend work after seeing the skull. He said his 14-year-old brother Orlando could not even attend school at Marabella West Secondary. “Nobody sells drugs here. Everybody is working hard. Who would do a thing like that? They dropped the skull, they walked up again and they dropped the bag right up there.
“They brought it in a little white crocus bag. There was mud and flies on the bag. They dug up that skull from somewhere,” Joseph said. The men’s father Dexter Oudit, 50, an employee at the San Fernando City Corporation, said no one in his family had gone missing or had any disputes that would warrant an attack. Despite that, he said he was not afraid of evil.
San Fernando CID and Southern Homicide Bureau, led ASP Ali Mohammed and Insp Don Gajadhar, visited the scene and took the skull to the Forensic Science Centre. Investigators are trying to determine who the skull belongs to and whether it was dug from a cemetery.