Griev­ing moth­er Lana Pan­do­hee Knights com­mem­o­rat­ed her daugh­ter’s 27th birth­day on Wednes­day by adorn­ing her grave with bal­loons.

This May marked a year since Shantel Pan­do­hee Knights’ de­com­pos­ing arm was found in St Au­gus­tine. That arm was buried at the Tu­na­puna Pub­lic Ceme­tery and ever since, Pan­do­hee Knights said she has been vis­it­ing the grave­side on every spe­cial oc­ca­sion.

The rest of Knights’ body is yet to be found. How­ev­er, Lana is not giv­ing up. Dai­ly, she prays for a sign that her daugh­ter could still be alive or at least her body found. She al­so prays she gets clo­sure on what hap­pened to her daugh­ter.

Knights’ arm was found in a ravine at Mo­hammed Street, St Au­gus­tine, on May 11, 2023. It was con­firmed to be­long to the miss­ing woman via DNA test­ing at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James. The limb was sub­se­quent­ly re­leased to Knights’ moth­er, who buried it in a tiny pink cof­fin. How­ev­er, she said since then she has re­ceived no com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the po­lice.

“Not reach­ing any­where or with any­one still. Sad. We nev­er got her body. On Wednes­day her broth­er and I took bal­loons, pic­tures and a ban­ner and we dec­o­rat­ed the grave where her arm was buried. Bit­ter­sweet,” Lana said.

Head of the Homi­cide Snr Supt Rishi Singh con­firmed in­ves­ti­ga­tions were on­go­ing,

“We have pur­sued sev­er­al leads, how­ev­er, we have not yet been able to cross the ev­i­den­tial thresh­olds to lay charges,” he said.

Knights, who was 25 years at the time, was from Curepe and was last seen on April 1, 2023.