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Ten months later…Mom praises cops for capturing daughter’s killer
– “My daughter is going to get justice now”
A mother’s faith has been restored in the Guyana Police Force (GPF) following the arrest of the man who brutally murdered her first born and managed to evade the cops for almost a year.
Shivanand Roopnarine was captured on Friday last at Mabura and has since confessed to killing his teenage girlfriend, Alicia McPherson at a dance at Sophia on April 19, last.
McPherson was stabbed 41 times that night and was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), while her killer immediately fled the scene and was never seen again until three days ago.
Kaieteur News understands that the 21-year-old suspect was reportedly heading to Mahdia when he was stopped at a checkpoint at Mabura and asked to produce some form of identification.
It was at this point that a policeman recognized him and took him into custody where he subsequently confessed to killing his girlfriend after seeing her dancing with another man.
Yesterday, the dead teen’s mother, Denise McPherson was in high praise of the Guyana Police Force for capturing her daughter’s killer.
The woman said that she was devastated and angry at the police following her daughter’s death and the fact that her killer was still on the run. She said that she was tired of running to the police stations only to be told, the suspect was still on the run.
However, on Saturday when she received a call from the lawmen informing her that her daughter’s killer was caught, she was speechless.
Captured suspect: Shivanand Roopnarine
Denise and her daughter, Alicia
“My daughter is finally going to get justice after 10 months. Next month will make it a year since he killed her,” the woman said in a soft tone.
“I want to see him and I want to ask him why? Why did he kill her?” the older McPherson lamented.
The woman said that since her daughter was murdered, she is having sleepless nights and hope that after Roopnarine is convicted she will have some sort of satisfaction.
“It is terrifying to look at her bed every night and not see her there. I miss her every day,” she cried.
McPherson still cannot get the bloody image of her daughter lying on a hospital’s bed and connected to a set of wires out of her head. “That is something no mother wants to witness. It hurts, it pains. It is the worst feelings in this world.”
“My daughter is gone. She wouldn’t be there to advise her three siblings when they get older. She was such a quiet child, I never had problems with her and she was always helpful at home,” the woman cried
Recalling what transpired that night, the woman said that her daughter left home with her next door neighbour to go to a dance in the village.
“She told me that she going to the dance with her boyfriend and I said okay. She was going to leave with some friends and meet him there but the friends weren’t finished so she ended up going with the neighbour,” the woman recalled.
A couple hours later, she received the most terrifying telephone call in her life- her daughter was stabbed multiple times by her boyfriend.
The woman said that after her daughter was killed, she was informed that the teen was previously abused by the young man, both mentally and physically.
“My daughter is going to get justice now.”
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