Investigators are continuing their search for the driver of a car who knocked down and killed 35-year-old mother of two Paige John without ever stopping.
Yesterday, police officers were still trying to determine if the license plate found close to John’s body was in any way connected to the hit-and-run accident.
John, who lived at Pashley Street, Laventille, was found lying in a grassy area off the northern side of the Beetham Highway around 6 am on December 27.
“They killed my child and went their way! How do you want me to feel?” Teckla John-Chadband, John’s mother, cried yesterday.
In an interview with Guardian Media, the grieving mother begged the driver responsible for killing her daughter to come forward.
John-Chadband said her daughter had been, “going to work to earn a hard dollar to mind her children.”
John, 35, was both mother and father to two young boys, as their father was killed a few years ago, she said.
This role will now fall to John-Chadband.
Pained after the driver left her daughter lying at the side of the road “like an animal,” she said, “At least they could have driven to the station and told the police they just bounced someone, and was afraid to stop.”
Saying John’s children were mourning the loss of their only parent since the incident, John-Chadband issued the appeal as she spoke with reporters at the Forensic Science Centre, St James.
“Come in and give up yourself and let the law do what they have to do,” she urged.
A mother of two daughters herself, John-Chadband said she will now have to assume the role of provider and educator.
Vowing to do what she had to do, she said, “Paige was a sprightly person. She was always on the go. She was very independent. She loved to be about, she loved to dress, she loved herself.
“But she was always talking about her boys, making sure they had everything.”
As she again pleaded with the driver to surrender to the police and give the family some answers, Paige’s mother said, “I just want closure.”
John had been employed at NP as a cleaner, and was reportedly on her way to work at the time the accident occurred.
An autopsy was ordered after injuries were observed on the left side of John’s face.
John was described by relatives as a committed and hard-working mother who would do anything for her children.
John’s children had been spending the Christmas holidays with her father (their grandfather), as she had volunteered to work extra hours to earn more money.
On Thursday, relatives called for justice to be served.
