Hours after burn victim buried, relative held

Yesterday morning, the wanted relative went to the Freeport Police Station and gave up herself. However, due to the absence of a magistrate, the female relative and two other women were taken before a Justice of the Peace in the Couva Magistrates’ Court on wounding charges, an incident which reportedly occurred one year ago. They are expected to re-appear before a magistrate in the Couva Magistrates’ Court today.

One weeping relative said they were hurt by the “timing” of the police officers as the family was still dealing with the tragedy and had not even yet buried their dead as yet. The relative asked: “How you could do something like that.” She added: “Imagine police come to execute (warrant) while the dead on the ground. Yesterday (Tuesday) when we putting on clothes, when the dead (body) now reach, police come at the same time to execute a warrant to arrest she (sic). I tell them she getting ready to go funeral, so the police say when they come back from funeral tell them to come to the station. Last night they went to the station and police tell them the officer not there and to come back this morning (yesterday). When they went this morning, police lock them up.” Mohipath was spending the Divali weekend at the home of her big sister Giselle Lochan when fire broke out.