The mother of safety officer Felicia Samsundar who was murdered in a Tobago guest house on Tuesday says she can never find it in her heart to forgive the man who killed her daughter. "He went too far. How could he do that?" Devicar Samsundar said in a telephone interview yesterday. Samsundar said her husband, Sultan, who went to Tobago to witness the autopsy, told her that the autopsy revealed that their daughter had been strangled. Felicia, 22, of Hermitage Village, had gone to Tobago on Saturday with a 30-year-old man with whom she shared a seven-month relationship.
They checked into a guest house at Bacolet Gardens, Bacolet Point. The couple, police said, had an argument about a telephone call to her ex-boyfriend. However, on Tuesday around 3 pm the man left the guest house saying he would return for her. Workers became suspicious when he did not return and around 7 pm they found Felicia dead. A cellular phone charger was wrapped around her neck and her face was bruised and bloodied. Police arrested the man at a bar sometime later that night. Samsundar said contrary to media reports her daughter was not forced to go Tobago. "She was okay," she said.
The woman said on Friday her daughter went to Harry's Water Park with the man. She spent the night at his place. The next day, she said, he carried her daughter shopping at Trincity Mall and the couple also went to Pennywise. She said Felicia wanted to come home, but he carried her for a drive. They later hopped on a plane to Tobago. "They went to the beach and she tour Tobago. She was enjoying herself. Everything was good," Samsundar said. She said at around 1.30 pm on Tuesday she spoke to her daughter who said "everything was good."
Later that day around 4 pm or 5 pm Samsundar said she also spoke to the boyfriend who said he was in the airport waiting for a flight. Samsundar said last November her daughter broke off a common law relationship which had lasted less than a year, and in January she met the man. Samsundar said she believed that they had an argument about the phone call to her daughter's ex-boyfriend because recently she had been in close contact with him. Her body was expected to be flown back to Trinidad last night and funeral arrangements were tentatively set for tomorrow. Up to late yesterday a suspect of Todds Road, Carapo was still in custody.