Don’t leave me!

ANDY Dalchan sobbed uncontrollably during the funeral for his mother, Reena Dalchan, 41, a mother of four, who was stabbed to death as she slept on a bed at her parents’ Carapichaima home on Monday. Surrounded by his sisters and relatives, Dalchan’s only son, Andy, 20, sat on a chair in front of his mother’s coffin  throughout the service at his grandparents home at Smith Street, Korea Village, Carapichaima. As he watched his mother, he sobbed: “Don’t leave me...ah going with you.” As tears streamed down his face, Andy seemed too weak to stand and appeared to be faint. He had to be physically supported by relatives who stood by his side at all times A day before she was stabbed to death, Dalchan told her co-workers she believed a close relative was going to kill her. “She was fearful of him and was always looking behind her back because she thought he was going to kill her,” her co-worker, Marilyn Joshua, revealed yesterday at Dalchan’s funeral service. Joshua, manager of 2002 Janitors, told more than 100 mourners who braved the inclement weather that she had known Dalchan for only four months, adding that the deceased was a caring and quiet person.

She said co-workers always looked out for Dalchan. “We never let her go home alone or come to work alone,”  she added. Dalchan’s neighbours and friends described her as being a “good mother and loving person.” Also paying respects was councillor for the area, Ramjit Ramnarine, who called on leaders of the community to make a greater effort to help people in need. Following the service at which  Reverend Roger Radhay, of the Korea Evangelistic Church officiated, the body was taken to the Chandernagore Cemetery for interment. Meanwhile the murder suspect, a 46-year-old fisherman, remains warded in serious condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. After allegedly killing the woman, the suspect attempted to kill himself by jumping off a banister of the house. He fell ten feet to the concrete ground and is now said to be paralysed from the waist down.