But deportee may not be allowed in BY PHILIP MASCOLL The father of a heroic 7-year-old Toronto boy who led his younger siblings to safety after his mother had been slashed to death wants his children with him. Ideally, said the man, he would raise them in Canada — since they were born and raised here. But if that's not possible, he would like to come to Toronto to bury his wife then take his children home to Grenada in the Caribbean. "I love my children. I want them with me. I am all they have now ... their mother, my wife is dead," the 37-year-old autobody repair mechanic sobbed in a telephone interview from Grenada yesterday. "I want to see her one last time. I want to be there for my children and to see her. It will be the last time we ever see her." The Star is not identifying the man and the family to protect the privacy of the children. His 24-year-old wife, the mother of their three children — the 7-year-old boy, a 4-year-old son and a daughter, 3 — was slashed several times in the neck by her live-in boyfriend, Dean Anthony Plante, 30, early Friday. Plante then hanged himself in the hallway of the small, one-bedroom basement apartment on Lansdowne Ave., an autopsy revealed. The pair had been dating for four months. "I did not know about him, but he must be a mad man," their father said. "Why else would he do that to a woman with three little kids? Now my children had to go through this horrible thing alone. My children don't have a mother and they are still far away from me." Toronto homicide investigators said the man who killed the young mother had moved in with her only a week before the slaying. The eldest child saw his mother's body, woke his brother and sister, and guided them past Plante's hanging body, up the stairs and outside to Lansdowne Ave., police said. They found refuge at a playmate's home 20 houses away. The children's father said he was deported to Grenada three years ago, after he overstayed his visitor's visa. The man has never seen his youngest child because his wife was still pregnant when he was deported. They met in Toronto and were married about seven years ago. When the first child was born, the couple moved back to Grenada, but after they had been there for about two years, his wife, pregnant with their second child, returned to Toronto. The father said he wants to come to Toronto but as a deportee he would require a special permit to return to Canada, even to bury his wife. "But I want my children and I want to say goodbye to my wife," he said. The father said he would be in touch with the Canadian mission in Trinidad and Tobago today, hoping to get a permit before his wife is buried. "I must be with my children," he said of the youngsters who are with family in the GTA. SOURCE: THESTAR.COM