The mother of 15-year-old Sheliza Khan, whose battered and nude body was found on the Hope Estate Road early last month, is calling out for justice for her daughter.
“I hope the police charge whoever kill me daughter soon,” the woman said on Tuesday when Stabroek News contacted her at her home.
The police are yet to make a breakthrough in the investigation into the young woman’s murder even though a senior police officer had indicated about two weeks ago that they might have charged someone soon. The police had arrested five persons, including the woman with whom Khan was shortly before her death. They have all been placed on bail.
The child’s mother said she has been visiting the station regularly and the police have been consistently telling her that there was no new development. She said her daughter’s cellular phone was in police custody and they had reportedly told her that they would have been monitoring who called the phone. The phone had been left with the girl’s friend on the night she disappeared.
The woman said there was a particular man from an East Coast Demerara village, who she would like the police to question as he had reportedly called for her daughter shortly before she left her house on that fateful night.
The man’s name and number are in the phone, according to the woman. “I just want it to end and somebody fuh pay fuh me daughter murder. I just want dat to happen,” the woman said. She said she was hurting over the brutal manner in which her daughter was killed.
The teenager died as a result of shock and haemorrhage due to blunt trauma to the head.
Khan had left her home stating that she was going to purchase Chinese food in Mahaica but she and her friend ended up at a popular nightspot in the area. From there, it is believed, the young woman left in the company of a number of young men in white minibus. The friend had said that she had gone to answer her cellular phone and upon her return the girl was gone.
The police had believed that the young woman had been shot because spent shells were found in the area where her body was discovered. However, the post-mortem had found no evidence of gunshot wounds on her body.
