Police investigators are checking to see if pieces of fabric found beneath a car match the clothing Demerara Bank employee Sheema Mangar was wearing when she was dragged along Camp Street, Police Commissioner Henry Greene said yesterday.
Greene told reporters that the material “seems to resemble the uniform that the girl used and we have put it under chemicals to determine if it’s the same type of material”.
The commissioner added that no human remains were found under the car just the fabric.
He said that a suspect, who was held and has since been released, has denied being involved in the incident. “They [investigators] were trying to get a witness…,” Greene said.
Mangar, 20, was robbed of her mobile phone some time after 6 pm on September 11 as she waited for transportation on North Road close to Camp Street. The young woman chased the perpetrator who jumped into a car and ran her down when she tried to stop him from fleeing. The woman was dragged from the Bedford Methodist Church at Camp Street and North Road to the intersection of Camp and Church streets. She died hours later at the St Joseph Mercy Hospital from a ruptured spleen, one of the many injuries she sustained.
Acting on information, police had held a suspect and detained his car. However several days later, the man was released.
In an interview with Stabroek News, Mangar’s mother, Radica Thakoor had called for capital punishment for her daughter’s killer. “That man should be hanged if anybody find him. I’m not talking on behalf of just my daughter, I talking on behalf of everybody daughter as well because this could happen to other people. No one knows what I’m going through. When I close my eyes in the night I see my daughter lying in the mortuary,” Thakoor had said.
The young woman who was studying to become an accountant was killed one month before her 21st birthday.