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Slain bank employee’s mom fears daughter’s case will be forgotten
The mother of slain bank employee, Sheema Mangar, is concerned that the police may place her daughter’s case on the back burner as they try to cope with the recent spate of sensational killings.
It has been almost a month since a thief dragged the 21-year-old to her death after snatching her Blackberry phone. Radica Thakoor said this week that police appear to have made no progress in apprehending her daughter’s killers.
Ms. Thakoor told Kaieteur News that she will attempt to meet with the Minister of Home Affairs to ensure that the case is not forgotten.
During the initial stages of the investigation, police detained three men and impounded two cars which were reportedly similar to the one in which the thief escaped. They also removed a piece of fabric from one of the vehicles, and also reportedly retrieved a strand of hair from the other car.
Police officials had indicated that they would have conducted tests to ascertain whether the fabric could have come from Mangar’s uniform.
Tests were also to have been conducted on the fabric for traces of blood.
Police officials who Kaieteur News contacted were unable to say whether these tests were done and if any evidence had been found.
Kaieteur News was told that some of the detectives who were working on the Mangar case were also investigating the recent execution style killings and the murder of Queen’s College student Neesa Gopaul. Police had said that they were trying to contact an informant who claimed that the man who was driving the car under which the fabric was found had admitted to robbing and running over Mangar.
Mangar’s mother had given detectives a uniform similar to the one that her daughter was wearing when she was robbed and killed.
The torn and bloodstained clothing the victim was wearing was apparently discarded after she was hospitalised. Ms. Thakoor had also said that she is hoping that either the Demerara Bank Limited or the police issue a reward for the arrest of the killers.
Sheema Mangar was waiting for transportation near the junction of North Road and Camp Street three Fridays ago when a man snatched her phone.
The thief then entered a silver-grey car and ran Mangar over when she stood in front of the vehicle in an attempt to retrieve her stolen phone.
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