RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

Ri­ma Ho­sein’s worst fears be­came re­al­i­ty yes­ter­day, when she iden­ti­fied a body found in Cen­tral last month to be that of one of her miss­ing sons, Mikiel Ho­sein.

She was tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in James on Mon­day morn­ing, where she viewed the de­com­pos­ing body found in Wood­ford Gar­dens, Ch­agua­nas, in No­vem­ber.
She iden­ti­fied her son’s body via the tat­too of a dove and the name of his miss­ing broth­er Matthew on the left hand.

Af­ter iden­ti­fy­ing the body, she was tak­en to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion to be in­ter­viewed by po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Ho­sein’s broth­er Matthew, 17, was last seen on Au­gust 25 and CCTV footage re­trieved by po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors showed him walk­ing along the Freeport Mis­sion Road at Three Roads Junc­tion talk­ing on a cell­phone. The footage al­so had au­di­ble au­dio which cap­tured parts of Matthew’s con­ver­sa­tion.

Mikiel went miss­ing on Oc­to­ber 31 in Ch­agua­nas. He was last seen talk­ing to a pop­u­lar crime talk show tele­vi­sion host. It is be­lieved that he was be­ing watched by some­one as he spoke to the tele­vi­sion per­son­al­i­ty.

Speak­ing with the Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Ri­ma Ho­sein said while she had clo­sure now on Mikiel, she was not giv­ing up search­ing for her younger son Matthew.

She re­cent­ly print­ed fly­ers and be­gan dis­trib­ut­ing them her­self in her com­mu­ni­ty, in­clud­ing at St Mary’s Junc­tion in Freeport.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that of­fi­cers of the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion, Ca­nine Unit and Homi­cide searched a bushy area at Up­per Are­na Road, near WASA’s wa­ter tanks, and found a pouch. It is, how­ev­er, yet to be con­firmed if it be­longs to any of the two broth­ers.

Any­one with any in­for­ma­tion that can as­sist the po­lice in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions as to the where­abouts of Matthew is asked to con­tact PC Stoute of the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion, any oth­er po­lice sta­tion, 999, 555 or 800-TIPS.