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Slain bank employee’s relatives erect cross in her memory
– brazen robbers still operating in area
The person who ran over and killed her almost two months ago remains at large, but the family of murdered bank employee, Sheema Mangar is doing all they can to ensure that she does not become another cold case statistic.
But even as efforts are being made to identify her killer, there are reports that robbers are continuing to prey on victims in the same area where the 21-year-old woman lost her life.
Yesterday, with storm clouds overhead, family members, including the teen’s parents, brother and grandmother, returned to Church and Camp Streets to erect a cross near the spot where she was brutally attacked.
Her mother, Radica Thakoor, said that she is determined that her daughter is not forgotten and that justice is served.
“We are still waiting for justice. She is a child of this nation and justice should be served.”
She lamented the fact that her daughter was not around to see her brother celebrate his fifteenth birthday last Tuesday.
And she also expressed disappointment that none of Sheema’s colleagues turned up yesterday, even though some of them were informed.
Ms. Thakoor had told Kaieteur News last week that she was told by senior police officials that samples relating to the investigation had been sent to Barbados. According to the mother, she was also told that the forensic results would not be ready until January 2011.
In an interview earlier this month, Assistant Police Commissioner (Law Enforcement) Seelall Persaud had said that the samples are to be sent to an overseas laboratory.
Remembering Sheema Mangar: Relatives at the scene of Sheema’s murder
He said that analysis of the samples, including forensic evidence taken from “more than one vehicle” will undergo DNA and other testing.
The evidence reportedly includes a piece of fabric that was found on one car and a strand of hair that was recovered from another vehicle.
At least two persons were detained during the early stages of the investigation.
While the family members had gathered at the scene, they were informed that bandits were still operating in the area.
A resident of the area told the relatives and Kaieteur News that he witnessed a young woman being robbed by two knife-wielding men at around 18:00 hrs, while walking along the same route that Sheema Mangar had taken on that fateful night. The modus operandi of the robbers was eerily similar to the one on Mangar.
He said that the woman’s attackers relieved her of her bag, which contained about $5,000. According to the man, the robbers emptied the bag of its contents, dumped it in a waste-bin near Camp and Church Streets, and then fled in a waiting car.
Manger, of Lot 675 Block Eight Mon Repos and a former Queen’s College student, was robbed of her BlackBerry phone at around 18:40 hrs on Friday, September 10, while awaiting transportation near Camp Street and North Road.
An eyewitness had told Kaieteur News that she saw a dark-complexioned man wearing a red sweater run from North Road into Camp Street.
She said that the man then got into a car which was parked near the Bedford Methodist Church in Camp Street.
According to the eyewitness, Mangar ran towards the car while shouting “thief, thief.” She reportedly then stood in front of the car while demanding that the thief return the phone.
But according to the eyewitness, the occupant of the car responded by running over Mangar and dragging her to Church Street.
The car, said to be silver-grey or “fawn-coloured,” then headed east along Church Street.
Mangar succumbed shortly after midnight at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
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