| On January 5, last year, Rosignol housewife, Omowatie Mohabir, 47, also known as Leila, died after being apparently trapped in her home during a fire.She was alone at home, her husband, a fisherman, being out on sea at the time.From all appearances, it appeared that the blaze occurred after she had retired to bed; and had fallen asleep.But one year later, her relatives are still haunted by suspicions that she might have been murdered and the fire deliberately set to cover up the heinous crime.Last week, though, even while mourning the anniversary of her demise, they were beginning to realize that they might never know the truth about her final moments.“Only God knows! Only God knows what happened and we have to live with that even though it hurts,” her sister, Khemrajie Marques-Lewis, said.But then immediately after saying this she raises the nagging questions once more.How come?The house in which Mohabir died was a small one-flat building that rested on the ground with a window just near the bed where her remains were found. How come she didn’t get to simply open that window and escape? How come?One of the walls of the building was made of zinc, the other three of wood: no electricity,Jerseys NFL Wholesale China, and not much combustible materials; yet her body when found almost totally destroyed: no head, no skull, no leg bones, no rib cage, no teeth; no nothing else; just a part of a shoulder and a part of an arm.Where did the combustible material from the mere twelve feet by eight feet building come from to destroy her body by more than 95 per cent?Mohabir was healthy, she could have run, and she could have jumped. How come they found what was left of her at the exact spot where her bed was?“These are some of the questions that give us a headache every time we think about her, “ her sister said.“We have to give it up; we have to forget about it,” she said, admitting that her loss of hope also has to do with the fact that the investigation which was launched immediately after her sister’s death, seemed to have petered out.“They hold a boy who was a friend of her husband, but then they let him go. We haven’t heard anything else since,” she said.“We have to forget about it, we have to do that,” Kemrajie said .Minutes later, sorting out photographs of her dead sister, she admitted: “It hard to forget though. She was so kind, so loving: it very, very hard.”Mohabir was survived by her husband Malchand Mohabir, a fisherman. and her teenaged daughter, Sherry. |
