When Steel Talks extends condolences to the family and friends of journalist and panist Ms Marcia Henville.

According to news reports

Popular TV show host Marcia Henville perished in a fire at her St. Augustine home on Saturday morning.

C News understands that the TV6 Point Blank host perished in the blaze at her Fidelis Heights home sometime around 6am.

Early reports indicate that there was an argument at her third floor apartment and an explosion was heard shortly before the fire broke out.

Fire officials and police responded. However, they were unable to save Ms. Henville whose charred body was found in her bedroom.

Looptt, where Henville worked at as a Community Writer, stated: “Her children escaped unharmed and a close male relative received first degree burns to his hands and legs. It is alleged that the fire may have deliberately set.”

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  • My condolences to her friends , relatives and bandmates.

    I was not aware of all her accomplishments , but to this Trinidad All Stars fan she was very visible in their performances as a lively , talented player.

    Rest in Peace , Marcia Henville.

  • condolences to the immediate family.

    To the pan world a great loss

  • Thanks for posting the picture of her in All Stars. Every time I watch the video of the band playing Curry Tabanca I always look for the clip of her not even knowing who she is but just that you could see the energy and vibe which she gave. Sad to know that she is gone, however,never forgotten.

  • 2959984992?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024Marcia Henville with Trinidad All Stars

  • Henville the advocate

    Tuesday, January 27 2015

    Marcia HenvillE’s in-your-face, eccentric style of journalism may have rubbed some the wrong way, but to many she was a hero, unapologetic and fearless in her campaign for the underdog. The country and journalism will be the poorer for her passing, for Henville was the quintessential advocacy journalist, eschewing the notion of objective reporting for reporting with heart, all the while accurate.

    She was definitely a valiant advocate for peace in hot spots. With the exception of crime reporting, few journalists climb the hill to Laventille. No reporter enjoyed her rapport with the community. Her beat was not crime though; it was people.

    Henville was known for her aggression. When she toured Beverly Hills with the Minister of National Security, she forcefully disputed his assertion that the war on gangs is successful.

    Behind the assertiveness or motivating it was her love for the people of the underdog communities and her impatience for change. In one interview last year, in plaintive voice she appealed to a John John resident: “What are you fighting for? Too many young boys are dying!”

    The advocacy journalism practiced by Henville is a controversial topic, as its practitioners set out with a conclusion, a point of view and while factual they reject the notion of objectivity. To the advocate, journalism should be passionate, activist and opinioned, and they describe traditional reporting as soulless, as favouring specific dominant groups while disparaging the rest. Advocacy journalism advances the argument that reporters cannot extinguish their emotion when writing news stories and that to believe otherwise is to be naive...http://www.newsday.co.tt/editorial/0,206137.html

    • TELEVISION host and journalist Marcia Henville was murdered... brutally. She was bludgeoned, throat slit, was stabbed several times in the back of the neck and had a flammable liquid poured over her body to burn her where she lay.

      These, in essence, are the findings of an autopsy performed on her body at the Forensic Science Centre, St James yesterday by Pathologist Dr Eastlyn Mc Donald-Burris and assisted by Senior Forensic Pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov.

      Henville was discovered burnt and bleeding in the bedroom of her Fidelis Heights, St Augustine apartment home on Saturday morning. The Fire Department responded to a call from the gated community opposite the Hugh Wooding Law School at six o’clock that morning.

      Henville’s husband Sheldon escaped the fire with burns about his hands and legs and had to be hospitalised at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC) in Mt Hope. Her children Chioke, 20, and Nekiyah, 15, who were also in the apartment were unhurt.

      The autopsy determined Henville’s killer may have used a kitchen knife in the attack to slash her throat, stab her six times to the back and her neck and then beat her on the head, causing blunt force trauma.

      The killer then attempted to burn the body of the mother of two by pouring a flammable liquid on her back and on the mattress where she lay and proceeded to set the mattress on fire. The killer also lit the clothing Henville was wearing.

      Yesterday’s autopsy led investigators to conclude that when her throat was slashed, Henville fell on her stomach on the bed prompting the killer to inflict the stabs wounds to the back of the neck (which severed her spinal chord) to ensure she was dead. Homicide investigators also now believe the killing was premeditated.

      Initial examination of the room where Henville was found, revealed the killer wanted to conceal the murder by burning her body. The killer also wanted to ensure that the fire was contained only to the bedroom. Homicide officers told Newsday while the back of Henville’s body was badly burnt the front torso remained intact.

      As a result of the findings of the autopsy homicide officers returned to Fidelis Heights to search for the murder weapon which they believe was left behind at the murder scene. Police believe the killer felt he was successful in concealing Henville’s murder, but after a report of fire was made to the Fire Services, officers responded promptly and were able to contain the blaze before it fully consumed her body.

      Henville’s husband Sheldon, 39, a labourer with the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA), told police on Saturday that he and his wife went to the Queen’s Park Savannah to listen to pan music.

      http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,206123.html

  • Condolences to all.

  • Rest in Peace Marcia , we will never forget you ....

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