A mother of 2 detained in the death of Maritime Finance Chairman John Smith is under going a psychiatric evaluation.

The 74-year-old Mr. Smith was found dead at his Maraval home last Friday afternoon.

Reports are saying the decision to send the 41-year-old woman to the St. Ann’s Hospital was taken after consultation between attorneys and the Trinidad And Tobago Police Service.

Mr. Smith’s autopsy is scheduled for today at the Forensic Science Centre in St. James.

Last Friday afternoon at around 4.30pm officers of the Maraval Police Station responded to a distress call at a residence in Catalina Courts, Saddle Road, Maraval.

When they got there they are said to have seen a woman lying next to a man who appeared to be motionless.

The woman, who was crying, was holding Mr. Smith’s hand.

She reportedly told police she lives in the house.

According to police the woman told officers she killed the insurance executive by “stamping his head and mashing his head into the ground”.

The woman was detained.

It is said 2 children, aged 9 and 13, witnessed the incident.

PC Martin, of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region One, is continuing investigations.