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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Mom grieving over murdered son dies

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Ex­act­ly two weeks af­ter the mur­der of her son, There­sa Liv­er­pool passed away yes­ter­day.

Rel­a­tives say since the mur­der of 23-year-old Ke­ston Jef­fery, his moth­er had been griev­ing and was nev­er the same.

Ke­ston's sis­ter, Asha Sam­lals­ingh, told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day she felt as though the peo­ple who killed her broth­er were al­so re­spon­si­ble for the un­bear­able sec­ond tragedy.

"The peo­ple that killed my broth­er killed my moth­er too. If they didn't do that, my broth­er and moth­er would be here to­day," she said.

Sam­lals­ingh said her cur­rent sit­u­a­tion felt like a bad dream and she could not come to terms with the dou­ble tragedy.

Yes­ter­day, Liv­er­pool, 52, was eat­ing and chat­ting with rel­a­tives at her Point Fortin home around 10 am when she sud­den­ly faint­ed. Af­ter she was re­vived a short time lat­er, the moth­er of five be­gan froth­ing at the mouth and col­lapsed again.

By the time she was tak­en to the Point Fortin Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal, she was un­re­spon­sive and was lat­er pro­nounced dead.

Sam­lals­ingh said her moth­er ap­peared good on the out­side but had been de­te­ri­o­rat­ing on the in­side.

"She would talk some­times and then get qui­et. But every­day since my broth­er was killed my moth­er has cried. She would be talk­ing some­times and then just start to cry," she added.

Sam­lals­ingh re­called a con­ver­sa­tion with her moth­er on Sun­day night.

"She told me 'When I die take care of my broth­ers,' and I told her don't talk like that. You need to be strong for them," she said.

When the T&T Guardian had vis­it­ed Liv­er­pool's home fol­low­ing Ke­ston's mur­der, she was in­con­solable. Clutch­ing at her bel­ly then, Liv­er­pool screamed out for her son, say­ing: "Lord, I does al­ways ask you to take me be­fore my chil­dren. Why my son have to leave me and go?"

Two Mon­days ago, Ke­ston's white B-14 car was found crashed on the road­side near a forest­ed area in Cap-de-Ville.

De­spite search­es that day, Ke­ston was on­ly found the fol­low­ing day when a trail of blood led rel­a­tives and po­lice to his blood­ied and bat­tered body a short dis­tance away in a drain. He was a PH taxi dri­ver in the area and lived at For­tune Street, Egypt Vil­lage, Point Fortin, with his sib­lings and moth­er.

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