The man who robbed, beat and dis­fig­ured for­mer beau­ty queen Can­dice Wor­rell is still on the run. Rel­a­tives fear he might have com­mit­ted oth­er rob­beries, yet po­lice of­fi­cers have made no progress in find­ing him, even though they re­cov­ered Wor­rell's stolen cel­lu­lar phone two months ago.

In the mean­time, Wor­rell, who rep­re­sent­ed T&T at the 2009 Miss Tourism Queen In­ter­na­tion­al in Chi­na, con­tin­ues to make slow progress, fam­i­ly mem­bers said yes­ter­day in an in­ter­view. No at­tempt has been made by the Gov­ern­ment to send her abroad for phys­io­ther­a­py or med­ical care. Her limbs have al­ready start­ed to curl. She can­not speak.

She recog­nis­es some mem­bers of her fam­i­ly but is un­able to com­mu­ni­cate ex­cept with screams, groans and fee­ble hand grasps. Dur­ing yes­ter­day's in­ter­view, Wor­rell's moth­er Su­san said she was dis­heart­ened by the lack of care shown by the Gov­ern­ment and the po­lice.

"My daugh­ter rep­re­sent­ed this coun­try in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. The least we ex­pect­ed was that she would be sent abroad for treat­ment. She is get­ting good care here but in the ini­tial stage she did not get im­me­di­ate med­ical at­ten­tion," Su­san said. She said on Jan­u­ary 20, Wor­rell was found ly­ing in a cor­ri­dor at her work­place-Jenex­con En­gi­neer­ing-where she worked as an of­fice man­ag­er.

It is be­lieved that Wor­rell went back to her of­fice around 5.20 pm to get her cel­lu­lar phone when she was at­tacked. The as­sailant smashed her jaw, broke her cheek­bones and struck her on the back the head, leav­ing her with a swollen brain. Su­san said her daugh­ter spent more than 24 hours at the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex with­out get­ting any med­ical care.

"They had her in a cor­ner at Mount Hope. She was scream­ing and scream­ing. Her face was swollen and when they fi­nal­ly ad­mit­ted her to In­ten­sive Care, she fell in­to a co­ma," Su­san re­called. She said watch­ing her daugh­ter de­te­ri­o­rate slow­ly was too much for her to bear.

How­ev­er, Wor­rell's friends and her fi­anc&ea­cute; W Con­nec­tion Foot­ball Club cap­tain Jan-Michael Williams, pulled her through. Su­san said they formed a sup­port group called "I Love Can­dy" and raised funds to foot her med­ical bills at St Clair Med­ical Cen­tre, St Clair. Since the dis­cov­ery of Wor­rell's stolen cel­lu­lar phone, Su­san said she has been up­set about the po­lice in­abil­i­ty to find her as­sailant.

"We want to know why the po­lice can­not go through the phone records and make ar­rests. We are see­ing oth­er cas­es where the po­lice are mov­ing swift­ly, yet they are drag­ging their feet with my daugh­ter's case," Su­san said. Mean­while, coun­cil­lor for Mara­bel­la West Glo­ria Cal­liste said she would make rep­re­sen­ta­tion to the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion to give as­sis­tance to the fam­i­ly.

De­tec­tives of the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion said yes­ter­day they were still in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mat­ter but could give no fur­ther de­tails on the case. Wor­rell, a for­mer beau­ty queen com­pet­ed for the ti­tle of Miss Trinidad and To­ba­go sev­er­al years ago. She was al­so crowned Miss Point Fortin in 2006.