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Parents of slain bank employee slam police, Govt. officials
Fate of Sheema Mangar’s samples still a mystery…
While the identity of her killer remains a mystery, an even greater shroud of mystery seems to hang over the fate of forensic samples for Sheema Mangar that were sent overseas over five months ago.
Contacted yesterday, Radica Thakoor and her husband, Lalbachan Mangar, said that they are growing increasingly frustrated at the fact that police officials have been unable to shed any light on when the tests on the samples will be completed.
“I went to (Crime Chief) Seelall Persaud about two weeks back and he say there is nothing up to now. I try to make an appointment to see the President (Bharrat Jagdeo) and they tell me that he out of the country…I don’t know what else to do,” a frustrated Ms. Thakoor told Kaieteur News.
And her husband alleged that one government official who had visited the family some months ago remarked that “this (murders) happen all over the world.”
“You don’t know what to do and where to turn. You go to the police, the President, you just wasting time.”
Sheema was the couple’s only daughter.
Police Commissioner Henry Greene was unresponsive when Kaieteur News had sought a comment from him during the signing of a contract to build the Force’s Forensic Laboratory.
“How can I know…Why don’t you call the lab?” was his response at the time.
Sheema Mangar
In a previous interview, Ms. Thakoor said she was told that the forensic results would not be ready until January 2011.
Assistant Police Commissioner (Law Enforcement) Seelall Persaud had told Kaieteur News last year that forensic evidence taken from “more than one vehicle” will undergo DNA and other testing overseas.
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.
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.
Police officials had indicated that they would have conducted tests to ascertain whether the fabric could have come from Mangar’s uniform.
Mangar’s mother had given detectives one of her daughter’s uniforms, since her torn and bloodstained uniform was discarded after she was hospitalised.
The former Queen’s College student of Lot 675 Block Eight, Mon Repos, was waiting to catch a bus near Camp Street and North Road on September 10, 2010, when a man snatched her BlackBerry phone.
The thief then entered a car, which ran over Mangar when she stood in front of the vehicle while pleading for the robber to return her phone.
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