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The forest mystery..a policeman murdered

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-03 18:54:41 

The forest mystery..a policeman murdered

Rio Claro police constable Anil Persad lost his life under strange circumstances deep in the Cushe/Charuma forest in May 2011.

That day, Persad, 30, was attached to the Rio Claro Police Station and part of a marijuana eradication exercise, when the officers were fired upon by men guarding a plantation.

Persad was killed.

His mother, Radica Maharaj-Persad, was told her first born was accidentally shot by his colleagues in a suspected case of friendly fire.

But the truth was never told. And Maharaj-Persad began a lonely battle to find out what really happened the day her son died.

Eight years later, Maharaj-Persad said she has been going through her son’s death in her mind, trying to think if there’s anything she had overlooked.

Maharaj-Persad believes her family has been forgotten by the police and politicians who visited the night he was shot. But she won’t stop until someone tells her what really happened in the forest that day, she told the Express last week.

Maharaj-Persad said her family had not moved on from the tragedy, and still grieves for her son daily. No occasion will ever be the same, she said.

Memories don’t leave


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