RADICA Thakoor, mother of Sheema Mangar, complimented Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, yesterday, for voicing his concern over the investigation into her daughter’s murder.

The woman told the Guyana Chronicle that she is still hopeful that the killer will be brought to justice because, as a mother, she knows what it feels like to lose children so senselessly.
The grieving Thakoor confessed that not a day goes without her thinking of her only daughter.
She said, since her daughter’s homicide, the family has not been able to live normally as the killing has left herself, husband and son somewhat tramautised and distressed.
Thakoor said she wishes to thank Minister Rohee for making his opinion public and hopes that the pace of the probe will be accelerated so that they can have closure, knowing that the person or persons who killed her daughter when she was in the prime of her life is behind bars.
She said, before the Minister issued his statement, she received a letter from him in which he expressed his dissatisfaction with progress on the probe by the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
Thakoor feels that the law is there for law-biding citizens and those responsible for the crime should pay for what they did to such a young, enterprising woman, who had so many plans and was killed for the sake of  cell phone that she tried to retrieve from a thief.

Disappointed
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Home Affairs said it was disappointed with the lack of progress in the investigation into the September 11, 2010 death of Mangar, an ex-Demerara Bank employee.
She was run over by a motor car while chasing after a man who had snatched her Blackberry cellular phone while she was standing at the corner of North Road and Camp Street in Georgetown.
The Ministry statement said it is of the view that, by now, more progress should have been made by the investigating ranks and added that the crime would, ultimately, be solved by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) as has been done with so many other serious crimes.
The Ministry recalled that it, recently, reconfirmed that two submissions were made to the Barbados Forensic Laboratory, on November 5, 2010 and August 30, 2011, respectively. A report on the first was received in August 2011 when a GPF representative went to Barbados to make the second.
The statement said, only recently, it was revealed that the Barbados Forensic Laboratory recommenced operations in late 2011, having been closed for repairs since 2009, notwithstanding which it continued to accept submissions.
The Ministry said that, apart from the efforts of the GPF, it is now in touch with the Head of the Barbados Laboratory, with a request that a report on the second submission be expedited.
The Ministry said it would maintain a close interest, as it shares the sentiments of the grieving parents and relatives and wishes to see the matter brought to a close to the satisfaction of the Mangar family.
Mangar, 21 at the time, was awaiting transportation, when her cell phone was grabbed and she gave chase after the snatcher who entered a motor car that drove off. She placed herself in front of the vehicle in an effort to stop it but was run over and dragged several feet before it sped away.
Public-spirited citizens rushed her to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), from where she was transferred to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and died there the next day.
Initially, two suspects were arrested but released later. However, investigators took parts of the retrieved fabric she was wearing from under the getaway car for scientific examination.