Cops appeal for credible tips in Ria search

“While we need all the help we can get from the public, it makes no sense doing what you are doing.” Last week, on Thursday morning, Sookdeo had just dropped off her two young children to classes at Picton Presbyterian School, Picton when she was abducted by a man said to be dressed in police uniform.

At the time, she was driving her red Nissan X-Trail and had driven a short distance away to turn.

She was quickly bundled into a black Nissan X-Trail and taken away by her captors.

On day eight of her disappearance, police have not found Sookdeo and continue interviewing persons and conducting searches. Sookdeo’s relatives are not sitting down either and yesterday at 3.45 pm relatives returned to their respective homes to collect their children from school and settle them with other family members before setting off again in the night in search of Ria.

“We must find Ria,” one relative told Newsday. “Every hour every minute counts in this search.” He told Newsday yesterday during a five-hour search they searched areas in Barrackpore including, Cunjal North and South and along the Rochard Douglas Road from Number Two Scale to Number Six and environs.

“We went to the forested areas and searched camps. People have been calling saying she is being held captive in an apartment,” another member of the search party revealed.“