A 77-year-old woman who was beaten and robbed during a home invasion in All Saints earlier this month has died, turning the case into a homicide investigation.
Police said Mariete Andersone, a Latvian national who had been living in All Saints for about two weeks, died shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, following complications from injuries sustained during the attack.
According to reports, Andersone called family members in the early hours of Monday, Jan. 12, saying she had been awakened by two young men inside her bedroom. She reported that the intruders were armed and beat her about the head with a firearm while stealing gold jewelry valued at approximately US$100,000.
Family members rushed to the house and found her lying in bed, bleeding, disoriented and visibly injured. They attempted to contact police several times but received no immediate response, relatives said. As daylight broke, they encountered officers nearby who said they were responding to a separate shooting in the same village.
By about 6:30 a.m., Andersone’s condition had deteriorated. She was unresponsive and breathing abnormally when emergency medical personnel arrived. She was transported to hospital, where doctors determined she had suffered severe head trauma, including traumatic brain injury and internal bleeding.
She underwent emergency surgery and was later admitted to the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition. Despite intensive medical treatment, she never recovered and died six days later.
Police have not yet issued a detailed public statement on the case.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact the police as investigations continue.
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Have mercy Lord.
WOW! This is horrible condolences to her entire family and I hope the person or persons are caught and beaten really badly with the law book…
Wow! Wickedness!!!+
We must learn to Love GOD
Love our neighbors as ourselves
“Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you”.
Oh my goodness. The police and government systems aren’t working properly, I just want officers in the communities on foot, bicycle, vehicle and satellite locations in all villages.
The people need better access to the police, they can run out and get a police or scream and get a police, or a police is likely to be present as the phone system, 911, and so forth doesn’t work effectively.
At this time the only way to substantially positively impact this crime problem is to ensure officers are in all areas of each village 24/7.
I am also demanding that any officer (on or off duty) who is injured while attempting to stop a crime must be covered fully by the government insurance and receive any disability and retirement benefits, if permanently and severely injured. Other benefits for temporary injuries that result in time off.
We need all available help and motivation to save this country from criminality.
The government should get solar powered streetlight with camera combination out of china to replace all existing streetlights system and help the police and government solve crimes.
Wicket heartless people, and the things that man rob and steal will outlast them, they will go to their grave and these none living objects remain here and get cobwebs or someone else recommit the same greedy act without learning it doesn’t make any sense.
And the politicians should distribute the wealth equally and stop hoarding it for themselves and family and create this perilous financial and social condition where theses young men feel that they want to emulate the politicians instant get rich overnight gratification scheme, and all these passport or amnesty and millennial act citizenship given out by ALP and UPP has created an socioeconomic pressure on our small society society, all these you ladies from Santo Domingo and Jamaica and Guyana has put pressure on these young men to provide for them as the bread winner and made them feel emasculated, and that’s the reason also they go out to rob to prove their manhood. But they are stupid and will either end up on jail or a grave.
Lord have mercy …..wicked set of young men
Look y’all take a life , poor lady . So these men dont have a mother, sister, Aunty etc . Stealing is wrong but why beat her . Just take it and go now y’all kill her off chups
I pray y’all find them and beat them just the same way they did this grandma 77 year old and did that dammm they need too find them
Enough is enough!!!
These lowlife criminals and murderers have long declared mayhem on the innocent and hardworking people of Antigua & Barbuda.
What is it going to take curtail these monstrous acts? The robbery of a politician’s loved one or even something worse?
All we ask of our politicians, is for more night-time patrols; more visibility of policing in the daytime; and harsher sentencing when the perpetrators are eventually aught.
Oh, and I also forgot to mention that our Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin must cease and desist from releasing so-called comparison crime figures with other Caribbean countries, when we’ve got rising crime figures right here, right now!
Antigua is a cesspool of crime and our leaders are doing nothing to stop it.
Interesting in knowing where the crimes will be dealt with. And then the refugees soon come to add to the ongoing crimes. Stay safe out there guys and say good bye to the lovely island of Antigua
This isn’t just about one incident. It reflects a wider problem with violent crime and a breakdown in respect for human life. I bet they won’t look at it this way……
The most disturbing part is that the family couldn’t get police assistance immediately. That is unacceptable.
How many elderly victims does it take before this is treated as a crisis?
Rest in peace, Mariete. The country owes you answers.
Sincere and deepest sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased. This horrific tragedy is yet another reminder of how broken Antigua’s police service has become. The public has every reason to be outraged, and the Minister of Police should be held to account for the repeated failures of law enforcement in this country.
A year has passed, and the murderers of the teenager found brutally killed on Fig Tree Drive, Richard “Monk” Whinfield from Swetes, and many others still roam free. Meanwhile, a pensioner living abroad entrusted Corporal Peter Roberts to build a house, only to be robbed and left with a property in ruins. Six months after reporting the matter to the Commissioner of Police, nothing has been done.
Antigua has become a place where violent crime goes unchecked, perpetrators feel emboldened, and ordinary citizens are abandoned by the very institution meant to protect them. The public demands that this latest crime be solved quickly and decisively, not just to bring the killers to justice, but to finally restore a shred of trust in a police service that has repeatedly failed its people.
The Minister and the police cannot continue to ignore these glaring failures. The eyes of the nation are watching, and they must be made to answer.
Something isn’t clear in this story. I don’t get when they called a doctor, nurse, or ambulance? Would the presence of the police cause hee to recieve medical care? Please, make tour report make sense.
This is sooo awful. I hope and pray they the find the persons responsible and they rott in jail.
Go find work to do and stop robbing people.
Turning our little paradise into murder island. This cuts deep seriously….
The amount of homes invasion and armed robberies for the past few months, it was only a batter if time before someone was killed.
I express my complete condolence to the family.
My only regret, is that them criminals didn’t get bullets in them head.
We know the police won’t find them…. They never find out sold ANYTHING!
Couldn’t get police, with a big police station standing right there, and why it took you that long to call for an ambulance? By the way @ My Way Of Helping, we’ve been preaching this for years, as a matter of fact the new Commissioner, just recently stated we will see more officers patrolling, as one of his crime fighting measures.
You clocked in get your pre briefing, with a police vehicle or two assigned to every village, patrolling in and out, interacting with villagers both on foot and mobile. Mr Commissioner it’s on you, but what I hate is when the police take these menaces down, people start bitching how police wicked.
I dont know what to say and I know just know how I feel,but what I would like to ask is when we ketch them in our homes and kill them its gonna be another problem for us civilians right? But jts okay for the perpetrators to come and rob us of the little we have and gun boot us and shoot us and if we survive? Because ya’ll police hardly ketch these criminals. They get away living life while you suffer with such trauma. We need police and the bigger heads to step down harder. The police back then in my time was really policing and serious with their work. When you hear John coming people run. When will Antigua be like Antigua again where we coulda go sleep and leave we windows open?????
As a resident, one who frequents All Saints my heart is completely broken reading this. No elderly person should ever have to experience such terror, especially in the safety of their own home. What happened to Andersone is cruel, inhumane, and deeply disturbing. It makes you question how safe any of us really are when criminals can invade a home, brutalize a 77-year-old woman, and disappear without immediate consequence.
This is not just another story. Look at the poor lady. Alas….This someone’s mother, aunt, neighbour, a human being who deserved peace and dignity in her final years. The pain her family must be carrying is unimaginable, and as a community, we should all be grieving with them.
We need more than condolences. We need action, urgency, and accountability. Our elderly must be protected, police responses must be faster, and violent criminals must know there are serious consequences for these acts. If we remain silent or treat this as “just another crime,” then we are failing each other.
Rest in peace, Ms. Andersone. You did not deserve this. My deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.
Alas. Jus the other day they killed another white lady on a horse
Sadness all around us. Come jesus come
RIP Grans. Vengeance will come for you.
Crime is down? Annah true Cutie? They need to start Water Boarding these street thugs with a water pistol painted like a Glock while they’re hung upside down in public.
The Nation needs Sharia laws and not these weak Christian forgiveness crap.
Chap aff dem hand, dem fut, dem ear! Gouge out dem eye. Hand dem rass innah public.
Just a matter of time before Travel Advisory is put on us. These low life needs to be eradicated from our society.
So sad, so sad.
I bet these perpetrators already left the island back to their native island.
This is what happens when you have a slack immigration system, you don’t even know who is in your island.
This is why no one know anything about who did it, because these are transplant criminals,
It’s obvious.
These criminals have no roots in Antigua, so the locals don’t know who they are, and their own native people ain’t going to say anything.
Just look at the Chantel case..no one saying a damn thing from the Spanish side.
This administration is a waste of time.
Just look at the number of criminals from other islands that have been in police custody over the past ten years.
Go in Jamaica, Haiti, syria, Lebanon or any other island/nation, and tell me how many Antiguan’s are in their prison system by ratio?
You even got Chinese criminals here. Tell me how many Antiguan’s are in any Chinese prison. On average Antiguan’s do not create problems for other people, it’s other people that create problems for them.
This immigration system is the worse in the entire Carribean, the worse.
And that’s not a joke..it has been this way for years and have gotten atrociously worst.
She knew the perps otherwise they would not be trying to unlive her. Check contact list. Areas she frequented. Associations.
RIP
We are a bunch of sick people.
GAS DEM AND LIGHT DEM
This is so incredibly sad, poor elderly lady suffered so badly before she passed. Antigua is in a very bad state right now, crime is out of control and nothing is being done about. Such a shame.
My condolences. A similar situation happened to a family member who could not get police for about an hour. The headquarters line was disconnected. I don’t know where the “case” is right now. My family member is also in her 70s, and could have been taken advantage of as THREE young men were in her house.
Smh. Absolutely no respect for people’s property or life.
Antigua is becoming a place of GANGSTERISM. I remembered the good old days in Antigua.I went into town and would leave my windows wide opened.No one messed with your property.My cars were left unlocked with the windows down.The only draw back,it would rain and soaked the seats.I am fully aware the people landscaped has change.We need to be our neighbors eyes and ears.It all begins with knowing your neighbors.What happened to that lady is tragic.I do hope they are caught and sentenced to be hanged.
This has happened to me twice in the last year and a half, minus the beating. WTF is going on! Do Antiguans not care because all I hear is lip service and Lord Have Mercy. Folks, this is no soap opera, get your head out of the sand.
I beginning to believe this country is a comic book horror show, and we are only at act 1. Is there any leadership out there, or does Turkey and Ham excuse the lack of it.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that our Prime Minister stays SILENT on the growing crimes in Antigua, but is very VOCAL on anything that effects him personally?
He won’t say a thing about this heinous Murder of Mariete Andersone.
A dereliction of his duty to this country. He’s so detached from our realities!
Soon the tourists will stop coming. Some say they don’t care but trust me the money will disappear also and we will all suffer in poverty and crime.
In any other part of the world they would have been able to save this poor lady, why they didn’t take her straight to hospital ? Sounds like the family are involved in this one. 100k is alot of money. It was probably there and they took it, why would you have 100k in your house and these 2 robbers just happened to pass by when it was there.
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