Four-year-old asks relatives for dead mom

“It is heartbreaking and difficult to know what he has to go through, but we would always be there for him,”she said.

The family, Babwah said, is still struggling to come to terms with the murder of Harrylal but are still awaiting the results from the DNA testing before preparations begin for funeral arrangements.

On August 25, Michelle Harrylal, 26, her common-law husband Michael Applewaithe, 35, and another male were discovered in the ashes of the burnt out house.

It is believe intruders invaded their home while they slept, tied them up and set the house ablaze. At about 8 am, a villager in a car was alerted to the tragedy when he saw Harrylal’s four-year-old son wandering barefoot along the roadway.

The villager said the boy appeared to be traumatised.

The crying child told the woman his mother was burnt in a fire and is in heaven.