Father still crying out for justice

His father Shakar Beephan told Newsday yesterday his family is still trying to find some form of closure. He is asking the police to expedite their investigation and bring anyone responsible for his son’s death to justice.

“Jesse, was a likeable fellah,” said Beephan.

“He was not violent. He was funny and humble. He loved video games. If my son’s killer is still out there, he could do this to someone else and take a child from another family.

My son is already dead and I cannot do anything about it.

But please, if anyone has evidence that could bring my son’s killers to justice, please come forward and help the police.” Reports suggested that Jesse was last seen entering a silver coloured car on the day he disappeared.

But Beephan told Newsday he did not believe the information given to the police. He believes his son was killed at the back of the Waterloo Secondary School and an attempt was made to hide his body in a box drain. he was still dressed in his school uniform and his head and face were bashed in.

An autopsy confirmed he died as a result of blunt Force trauma.

“When I heard that he got into a car to travel, I knew that it was a lie because he does not travel. I would pick him up and drop him off everywhere he wanted to go. Even if he did get into a car, how did he end up at the back of the school?” Beephan, of Roystonia, Couva, told Newsday on the day he went missing, Jesse accompanied his sister, who was doing exams, to the same school he was attending. He did not have any exams himself, but he went to the school to lime with friends. He was later seen accompanied by three other boys as they went to a market to buy some items.

Beephan said he received information from witnesses that he was later accompanied by three other boys going into a track that led to the back of the school where, Newsday was told, students would usually gather to lime.

The father believes it was around that time Jesse was killed.

The boys in question were detained by police and interrogated but they were later released pending further investigations.