RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

On the eve of her fu­ner­al and dur­ing a can­dle­light vig­il held in mem­o­ry of her, Kei­thisha Cud­joe’s aunt, yes­ter­day, ques­tioned how some­one could be so heart­less to take the life of some­one so kind.

The vig­il was held at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain from 6 pm to 8 pm with a hand­ful of friends and fam­i­ly.

Cud­joe’s fam­i­ly has been call­ing for jus­tice since her death al­though some have said that they are doubt­ful they will get it.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia dur­ing an in­ter­view last night, Cud­joe’s aunt, Zi­naya, be­came emo­tion­al when she spoke of how Cud­joe’s three-year-old would be ask­ing for his moth­er every day and every night.

“It’s hard to be­lieve that we have peo­ple in our so­ci­ety that can vi­o­late some­body in that way and what is the word safe? How do you be more safe? What, we lock our­selves in lit­tle rooms, glass box, have some­body tote us every­where? Get se­cu­ri­ty guards? That’s where we are as a so­ci­ety?”

Zi­naya said that she be­lieves there is need to start over from the foun­da­tion.

Family and friends of murder victim Keithisha Cudjoe held a candlelight vigil as they walked around the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

ANISTO ALVES

“You have to love our kids more. Be a lit­tle more pa­tient with them be­cause re­mem­ber, what we pro­duce is what we send out.”

She thanked every­one who came to­geth­er and had vig­ils on their own in mem­o­ry of her “sweet” niece.

The vig­il end­ed with a walk around the Sa­van­nah.

An au­top­sy done on the body of Cud­joe last Fri­day was in­con­clu­sive on the cause of death due to the ad­vanced state of de­com­po­si­tion.

Cud­joe, 21, who was orig­i­nal­ly from Up­per Covi­gne Road, went miss­ing from her home on Jan­u­ary 24, how­ev­er, an of­fi­cial miss­ing per­son’s re­port was filed by rel­a­tives on Jan­u­ary 29, the day af­ter a de­com­pos­ing body was found in the Heights of Aripo on Jan­u­ary 28.

That de­com­pos­ing body was iden­ti­fied as Cud­joe’s last Tues­day by her rel­a­tives us­ing her shoe, glass­es and bits of cloth­ing.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to Cud­joe’s dis­ap­pear­ance and death are still “ac­tive” and added that one per­son has since been de­tained for ques­tion­ing.

How­ev­er, in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ask­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic who may have any in­for­ma­tion to con­tact them at 999, 555, 800 TIPS or via the TTPS App.

Keithisha Cudjoe