JOY Noel, mother of murdered transgender sex worker, Noel Luthers, said yesterday that she buried her loved one last Friday and since then she has been enveloped with a sense of loss she cannot comprehend but is calling for justice to be served.

The grieving woman told this publication that regardless of what her son was, no one had the right to kill him and the perpetrators need to face the full force of the law. However, she said there isn’t much the police are doing to locate the two men, for whom they have issued wanted bulletins.

Noel said that up to yesterday morning she visited the Brickdam Police Station to enquire whether there is any progress as it relates to the homicide, but was told that there is no new development in the case.

The woman added that she is frustrated and is unsure what to do next since she has been going back and forth at the police station for information.

Mrs. Noel added that she has come into some information from the gay community in which one of Nephi’s friends has come forward to say that he was the intended target and that person has a striking resemblance to her son.

She stated that she is unsure what transpired leading up to her son’s murder but knows for sure that the killers need to be held responsible and the police should step up their game in locating the men, whose photos were displayed in the media.

Mrs. Noel said that there is someone out there who knows the whereabouts of the killers and it is her hope that they will be arrested.

RON ‘Andel’ Forde and Kanand Ojha, for whom the police have issued wanted bulletins in connection with the shooting death of transgender sex worker Noel Luthers, aka ‘Nephi’, have not made themselves available to the police, and are still actively being sought for questioning in relation to his murder.

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum initially told this newspaper that even before the wanted bulletin had been issued for the duo, the police had failed to locate them despite several visits to their places of abode. He said the police will continue to look for the suspects until they are found.

Twenty-year-old Luthers of Lot ZZ D’urban Street, Wortmanville was gunned down by one of two men, on July 22, 2015 at about 02:35 hrs, while plying his trade in the downtown area of Carmichael Street in Georgetown. He was shot once to the chest when confronted by the duo during an argument over a paid transaction.

Reports are that a male client had earlier visited the transgender sex worker for a paid sexual encounter, but was apparently not satisfied with the services he had received, and had returned to Luthers.

Not being pleased with the response, the client returned with another man who reportedly shot Noel dead before fleeing the scene in a sports utility vehicle.

Luthers was conveyed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Wanted: Kanand Ojha and Ron ‘Andel’ Forde