Cops held in businessman’s murder probe still in custodyVictim’s mom hopes she gets justice

The mother of Sachel Kungebeharry, who was allegedly kidnapped by police officers and later found murdered, remains hopeful that the police will bring her justice.

Speaking with Guardian Media at her Jerningham Road, Cunupia home yesterday, Lyncia Hansranah said the alleged involvement of police officers in her son’s death will not shatter her dreams of getting justice.

“Well yes, it wouldn’t be that all the police are corrupt. We know that it has the good ones there that would be involved in getting justice for Sachel,” she said when asked if she still had faith in the police.

Last week, a police corporal, constable and another man were held in relation to the kidnapping and death of Kungebeharry. On Sunday, an attorney representing one of the two officers sought to compel the police to release his client. Up to press time, however, the officers remained in police custody and were scheduled to be placed on an identification parade.

Kungebeharry, a 32-year-old businessman of Pierre Road, Felicity, was snatched on September 25. Three men, dressed in police operational wear, reportedly came out of a marked police car, which was later traced to the Caroni Police Station, and took him. A $500,000 ransom was reportedly paid four days later for his safe release. However, his decomposing body was found on Thursday (October 3) in a shallow grave off Pokhor Road, Longdenville, Chaguanas.

Yesterday, his mother Hansranah said she has faith in God and knows she will get justice “because I am standing strong in the Lord. He will make that happen.”

She called on families who have been placed in the same predicament to join her in prayer so they too can get some justice or at least get closure by having their loved one’s body returned.

The 59-year-old said her family, consisting of nine children and her mother, were all business-minded and will not be wavered by Kungebeharry’s killing.

Last Thursday, Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher, in a media release, promised to rid the police service of corrupt police officers in the wake of allegations of the involvement of officers in this latest criminal act.

Asked if this brought any ease to her, Hansranah said yes.

Recalling the CCTV footage showing the marked police car used in the kidnapping of her last of four sons, Hansranah said seeing that upset her.

“What was going through my mind was the cops is the ones that had him, they are the ones that took him. So, what was going through my mind is, is it that I’m going to get justice? Because it’s the cops.”

Hansranah called on the police commissioner to do as promised and rid the police service of rogue officers.

“I would like to send out a message to them to get all of them that they think is corrupt and the elements that is out there too, not just police officers but those in that kinda thing. I will like the elements to deal with them in the right way, yuh know, by law,” she said.

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