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RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

Ri­ma Ho­sein’s one Christ­mas wish is to get clo­sure on the where­abouts of her 17-year-old son, Matthew, who went miss­ing four months ago.

Last Sat­ur­day, Ho­sein cre­mat­ed an­oth­er son, Mikiel, who dis­ap­peared while search­ing for his broth­er. He was mur­dered and his de­com­pos­ing body was found in Ch­agua­nas last month.

“Again, I am beg­ging whoso­ev­er knows what hap­pened to my child, Matthew, please, I do not want to know who you are but just tell the po­lice or some­one where I can find him and if he is dead, at least that I can have a body to give him a good farewell. Please, this is all I am ask­ing for as my Christ­mas gift,” she said.

Mikiel’s re­mains were cre­mat­ed at the Wa­ter­loo Cre­ma­tion Site af­ter a brief fu­ner­al ser­vice at his fa­ther’s res­i­dence at Ho­sein Trace in Chase Vil­lage.

Ho­sein said she is in pain men­tal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly.

“I am still not sleep­ing and eat­ing well. I feel as though the po­lice are not do­ing enough to find Matthew. I keep call­ing them and no an­swer, noth­ing to tell me if they an­swer the phone,” she said.

Matthew was last seen on Au­gust 25. CCTV footage re­trieved by the po­lice showed him walk­ing along the Freeport Mis­sion Road at Three Roads Junc­tion talk­ing on a cell phone. The footage al­so had au­di­ble au­dio which cap­tured parts of Matthew’s con­ver­sa­tion.

Mikiel was last seen on Oc­to­ber 31 in Ch­agua­nas talk­ing to a pop­u­lar crime talk show tele­vi­sion host. His de­com­pos­ing body was found near Wood­ford Lodge in Ch­agua­nas weeks lat­er.

In her ef­forts to lo­cate her son, Ho­sein print­ed fly­ers and was dis­trib­ut­ing them through­out her com­mu­ni­ty, in­clud­ing St Mary’s Junc­tion, un­til she claimed she was threat­ened and forced to stop. How­ev­er, she said she is de­ter­mined to con­tin­ue search­ing for her younger son.

Of­fi­cers from the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion, Ca­nine Unit and Homi­cide searched a bushy area at Up­per Are­na Road, near some WASA wa­ter tanks, where they found a pouch but are yet to con­firm if it be­longed to the miss­ing teen.

Any­one with any in­for­ma­tion is asked to con­tact PC Stout at the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion, or any oth­er po­lice sta­tion, 999, 555 or 800-TIPS.