Mother still hopeful crime will be solved
THE Guyanese authorities are still awaiting the results of tests on the DNA samples taken from former Demerara Bank employee, Sheema Mangar, following her murder last year.
They said the findings, expected from the United States (U.S.), are critical to further investigations into the crime.
After Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, Police Commissioner Henry Greene and Assistant Commissioner (Crime) Seelall Persaud visited her home, in January this year, Mangar’s mother, Radica Thakoor had renewed hope that her daughter’s killing would be solved and the killer or killers brought to justice.
Thakoor told the Guyana Chronicle she was given an assurance and the visit was a good signal, which was prompted by a letter she wrote to President Bharrat Jagdeo, about how her loved one was killed after being robbed of her Blackberry cellular phone.
The woman said the three visitors revealed that, initially, two suspects were arrested but were released due to lack of evidence. However, investigators took parts of the fabric retrieved from under the motor car that fatally ran over Mangar on September 10, 2010.
Thakoor said she is still hopeful that her daughter’s murder has not been forgotten.
Mangar, 20, was victim of the robbery some time after 18:00h, as she waited for transport on North Road near  Camp Street, in Georgetown. She chased the robber who jumped into the car that dragged her from outside Bedford Methodist Church, at Camp Street and North Road, to the intersection of Camp and Church Streets.
She died hours later at St Joseph Mercy Hospital, from multiple injuries she suffered.