Family demands justice over murder of Essequibo woman

“My mother was everything for us” – daughter

Fifty-two-year-old Indira Lall of Affiance, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) died on Monday night, and a postmortem conducted on her body has given her cause of death as manual strangulation.

The woman’s two children – Reshma and Vishal – are searching for answers, and demanding justice for their mother, who had worked as a security officer for some ten years, being a single mother and the breadwinner of the family.
At around 22:50h on November 15, the aggrieved daughter, Reshma, recalled hearing a taxi honking its horn outside their house. Upon peeping through the window, the taxi driver informed that her mother, Indira, was unwell. When Reshma went to the vehicle, she discovered that her mother was motionless.
“The man said, ‘Come quick!’ that ‘You mother not feeling good’, and that ‘She want go to the hospital.’ I didn’t tek two minutes to reach downstairs, but when I gone downstairs, I open the car door, she was in the front seat, when I open the car door, she was there, lifeless. Froth did coming out her mouth and her nose,” Reshma recalled.
Reshma, who has a child of her own, said she tried to wake up her mother, but there was no response. She then asked the taxi driver to take them to the hospital, but he reportedly refused, saying that his car light was not working.
As such, the daughter made alternative arrangements to take her mother to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“I don’t know what really happen, what they kill my mother for. My mother was everything for us; she was the breadwinner in our family, she was a mother and father to us, she gone good to work and come back dead, and it’s really hard for us, really hard…cause I can’t imagine my mother going to work and come back dead, and you don’t know what happened to her,” Reshma expressed.
The woman’s son, Vishal, said he had last spoken with his mother at around 19:00h on the day in question, and everything had seemed normal. He is pleading for a proper investigation to be conducted, and that whoever is responsible for his mother’s death be made to face the full brunt of the law.
Guyana Times was told that the taxi driver is known to the family, since he would often transport the late Indira Lall home from work whenever she is on the night shift. Police have since confirmed that the taxi driver is currently in custody, and he is assisting with the investigations.