Sascha Wilson
Investigators are awaiting instructions from the Director of Public Prosecutions on whether to charge a mother and her two sons in having connection with the murder of teenager Videsh Dookran. The 46-year-old woman and her children, ages 18 and 22 of Golconda, Ste Madeleine, were arrested last Tuesday.
Following an anonymous call, police discovered the 15-year-old boy's body at an outdoor bathroom in Golconda on October 9.
A woman had called the police around 5 am and reported that Dookran's body was inside an abandoned house at the back of Classic Pluck Shop along Cipero Road. Constables Matloo and Balgobin of the Ste Madeleine Police Station went to the address and searched the abandoned house where they found the teenager's body in a fetal position in an outdoor bathroom to the back of the building.
Further inquiries revealed that Dookran was with a group of people, including children, around 3 pm the day before (October 8) his body was found.
An altercation broke out and someone pulled out a firearm and shot him. Dookran’s body was then moved to an abandoned building. An autopsy revealed that Dookran, a Form Three student at Ste Madeleine Secondary School, was shot in a chest.
Dookran’s relatives said that last saw him on October 8 when he left his Golconda home in the afternoon to visit a cousin in the area. Officers of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations Region Three.
