REGIONAL: Former St Lucia House speaker attacked, hospitalised
Published:Saturday | November 22, 2014 | 7:20 PM
The former Speaker of the House of Assembly in St Lucia Matthew Roberts is now in hospital after he was found along a roadside near the capital with a stab wound to the neck.
The 60-year-old Roberts is said to be in stable condition.
The St Lucian Police have confirmed that they are now investigating a report that Roberts stopped his vehicle in an area three miles west of the capital this morning to offer someone a ride.
The police say he was later found in a pool of blood about a mile away.
It’s believed that the former Assembly Speaker was robbed and pushed out of the vehicle, which was later found abandoned.
The former Speaker of the House of Assembly in St Lucia Matthew Roberts is now in hospital after he was found along a roadside near the capital with a stab wound to the neck.
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