A mother of five has been killed in an accident that occurred on the public road at Beterverwagting (BV), East Coast Demerara at about 02:00h on Sunday.
Dead is 53-year-old Denese Elizabeth Joicline Paul of Lot 1139 Bareroot, Bachelors Adventure, ECD.
According to her son Reon Anderson, Paul had left her Bareroot home at about 19:00h on Saturday to spend time with friends; and at sometime after 02:00h on Sunday, the family received a call from the Beterverwagting Police Station notifying them of the accident. Upon rushing to the scene, Anderson said, they discovered the woman’s lifeless body on the road.
Dead: Denese Elizabeth Joicline Paul
He claimed that Police told family members that the driver responsible for the accident was under the influence (DUI) and had fallen asleep behind the wheel, resulting in the vehicle colliding with a post and flipping multiple times.
Paul was in the front passenger seat, and she was not wearing a seat belt, thus she had been fatally injured.
The grieving son said the driver had initially been arrested on charges relating to the accident, but he has since been released. The dead woman’s family members are now calling for justice.
“We feel real bad to know this happened and like it will just go down like that. We want justice,” Anderson insisted.
Paul, known for her past venture – a cook shop – had been ‘a free spirit’ and had been well known in her community.
“Everyone is just crying; she was all we had. My father died in 2014, and now, no father, no mom…just like a blank page,” the distraught son has said. (G8)
