Sascha Wil­son

As the fam­i­ly of the Pe­nal triple mur­der vic­tims bid a fi­nal farewell to them to­day, they still have no an­swers and re­main fear­ful for their lives.

On the brink of tears yes­ter­day, Lin­da Ba­j­nath said the fam­i­ly is not cop­ing well and have not re­ceived any coun­selling.

“Please, I want the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to send peo­ple to talk to we. We re­al­ly need that right now. With­out that, I do not know, we can­not eat. We can­not rest or do any­thing in peace. I am beg­ging for some­one to come and talk to our fam­i­ly. My daugh­ters, my daugh­ter in law, my grand-daugh­ters, my­self...we need peo­ple to talk to us. We beg­ging, we beg­ging,” she plead­ed.

Hours af­ter the ghast­ly mur­ders of Ba­j­nath’s son Anand Ku­mar, her grand­son (Ku­mar’s son) Kishore, 18, and her son-in-law Rol­ly Ho­sein, on April 25, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher as­sured that the Vic­tim Wit­ness and Sup­port Unit (VW­SU) would en­gage the fam­i­ly.

How­ev­er, that is yet to oc­cur.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day on this, the TTPS Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit said last Wednes­day, a VW­SU team vis­it­ed the neigh­bour­hood to pro­vide sup­port to Ku­mar’s daugh­ter Kar­ish­ma and the oth­er rel­a­tives. How­ev­er, they were un­able to keep the sched­uled vis­it.

Since then, the VW­SU had been wait­ing for the fam­i­ly to pro­vide a time and place for them to meet and yes­ter­day, they con­tact­ed Kar­ish­ma who agreed to come in to­mor­row with her fam­i­ly.

A VW­SU rep­re­sen­ta­tive will al­so be at­tend­ing the fu­ner­al ser­vices at Boodoo’s Fu­ner­al Home in Pe­nal to­day.

Ho­sein’s ser­vice will be held at 10 am, while the ser­vice for Ku­mar and Kishore will be held at 11 am.

Yes­ter­day, Ba­j­nath lament­ed, “I sit down and feel gid­dy all the time. I am try­ing to con­trol my­self too. I am 64 years old. But it is on­ly flash­ing back. It is not easy. Yes, we need help to go through this.”

The fam­i­ly’s once live­ly and lov­ing home at Mathu­ra Av­enue, Char­lo Vil­lage, now looks for­lorn and aban­doned, as every­one has moved out.

A res­i­dent told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that they now feel un­safe and have kept their doors locked since the in­ci­dent.

The fam­i­ly’s world first be­gan crum­bling in Jan­u­ary when Ba­j­nath’s sis­ter’s son, David, was shot and in­jured by an in­trud­er in the home. In March, Ba­j­nath’s broth­er-in-law Nar­ine Singh was fa­tal­ly shot by un­known per­sons at their home. Last week Tues­day, Ku­mar, Kishore and Ho­sein, were dragged from their home by gun­men wear­ing po­lice cloth­ing, made to lie face down on the ground and shot mul­ti­ple times. Ba­j­nath, Ku­mar’s wife and two daugh­ters, and Ho­sein’s wife were at home but the sus­pects came on­ly for the men of the house.

Ac­cord­ing to the find­ings of an au­top­sy at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, the men were shot sev­er­al times in the heads.

While Ba­j­nath has con­tem­plat­ed sell­ing her home, she does not be­lieve any­one would want to pur­chase it.

“We are al­so beg­ging for a home. If I get a home now, I will take it,” she said.

Nei­ther Ba­j­nath nor the po­lice have con­firmed so­cial me­dia re­ports that the mur­ders were drug re­lat­ed. Ba­j­nath in­sists her loved ones were not in­volved in il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties, while the po­lice are still nar­row­ing down a mo­tive for the mur­ders.