The mother of Raoul Anthony Melville, the taxi-driver who is suspected to have been murdered in his Bagotstown home, is calling for his killer/s to be brought to justice.
“I need justice because this is not fair. My son life has ended in the most disgusting manner, [the] most brutal kind of way. What’s more heartbreaking is that he has little kids,” Shaifali Melville told this newspaper yesterday.
The father of three was discovered by his 11-year-old son at about 8.45 am on March 4. The western door of the house was open and the man’s bedroom was ransacked. However, there was no sign of a forced entry.
Shaifali Melville previously said that the man was last seen alive on the night before he was found in his home. The next day when she sent his son, who lives with her, to relate a message to him, the boy returned to her and told her his father was not alive. The mother said that she then went to check and found his body with blood running from his nose, scratches on his back, and his head bleeding. There were also bruises on his neck, which she said looked like marks caused by strangling.
A post-mortem examination last week found that the 31-year old, of Lot 43 Norton Street, Bagotstown, died of brain haemorrhage due to multiple blunt trauma to the head.
The elder Melville yesterday said the autopsy has further confirmed her belief that her son was murdered.
She said that because of the slow progress of the matter, she has considered reaching out to the Crime Chief himself. “I thinking to call the Crime Chief himself to see if I could go and meet him because they murder my son and it’s not fair. They are out there walking all over and then I don’t know what really going on but the police need to do their job. They have a job and they need to do it,” the frustrated mother said. She added that she has even reached out to the President through a PPP/C group but that she is yet to get a response.
Although she does not know what transpired when her son died, she still suspects that an altercation the deceased man had with another could be the motive. She explained that her son and another man (name given) had an altercation after the man hit her son’s car, causing damage to a light.
She added that the man was supposed to pay $10,000 but when her son went to collect the money, the man chased him. Her son died just a few days after the altercation.
The woman was informed by the CID at the Providence Police Station that the man who was involved in the altercation turned himself in but he was released from custody after the police could not come up with enough evidence to bring forth a charge. She added that the police have told her that the results from fingerprint samples taken from the site are yet to be given to the police for the investigation.
She feels as though the police are not prioritizing the case and making attempts to get to the bottom of the man’s death. “Nothing really ain’t happen as yet. I feel disgusted with what the police force doing. I think they should get down real deep at the bottom of this thing because this is not right,” the woman told this newspaper.
