Molly may have known her killer

“I mean, no random person is coming in the area,” said son-inlaw Ansil Henry.

“When you talk about this area, everyone knows who lives out the road.

“Molly was the type of person who was always there to assist with anything happening in the district or with anyone.

“Most importantly, she lived for her children and grandchildren.” She was a mother of three.

Police, on Saturday morning, fished out Hosein’s body from a fish pond in Rio Claro.

Both her hands and feet were hogtied.

There were visible marks of violence and investigators believe Hosein may have been strangled.

Hosein,of Reserve Road off Pascall Road, Piparo, was employed with the Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) and was also a hairdresser.

Police reports are at about 8 am Saturday, a tilapia farmer visited several ponds in his garden off St John’s Road, near Brothers Road, Rio Claro, and found a body face down in one of them.

The hands and feet were submerged and only the back was visible.

Yesterday Henry recalled that at about 7.30 pm on Friday when Hosein’s son Sheik returned home from work, he realised she was not there.

He telephoned her several times but she failed to respond.

Sheik went with his vehicle in search of his mother on the assumption she may have been stranded for transportation.

His desperate search and numerous calls to relatives ended at about 3 am on Saturday.

At about 9 am on Saturday, Sheik reported at the Princes Town Police Station that his mother was missing.

But unknowing to the family, news of the death was already circulating via social media, accompanied by photos of the body.

Henry added that the images left the family further traumatised.

“My wife had a hard night because she saw the images of her mother.

“Everyone still trying to deal with the images we saw.” Henry insisted that the family is not casting blame on the government for the gruesome murder as those in authority cannot control people’s minds.

“As a nation, everyone must take responsibility for his/her actions.” He charged that police cannot be omnipresent to prevent such crimes.

In the same breath, Henry said the family is not optimistic that police would do a thorough investigation into the murder.

“We are expecting nothing to come out of this case. Every time we as civilians raise issues surrounding the attitude of the police, we always hear excuses.

“Nobody is taking responsibility. We have police officers who do not have respect for themselves.” An autopsy is expected to be performed at the Forensic Sciences Centre on Wednesday.