Jef­fer­son Mose­ley, the fa­ther of mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer PC Allen Mose­ley, is seek­ing an ur­gent ex­emp­tion from Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to re­turn home so that he can at­tend his son’s fu­ner­al.

PC Mose­ley was re­port­ed­ly am­bushed and killed while vis­it­ing a friend in Mor­vant last week­end. Hours lat­er, po­lice shot and killed Joel Ja­cob, Noel Di­a­mond and Is­rael Clin­ton but Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith said the two in­ci­dents were not re­lat­ed. The po­lice killings of the men sparked protests in Mor­vant on Mon­day and Port-of-Spain on Tues­day and Wednes­day.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia from his home in the Unit­ed States yes­ter­day, Mose­ley said he had al­ready sub­mit­ted the rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion need­ed to the min­istry but was yet to get a “favourable re­sponse.”

How­ev­er, he said his son’s moth­er was in dire need of clo­sure and putting her son to rest was a crit­i­cal as­pect of that, so the fu­ner­al has al­ready been planned for ear­ly next week.

“Should I not be able to make it I will have to view my son’s fu­ner­al via on­line,” Mose­ley said.

The griev­ing fa­ther said his son’s mur­der had come as a com­plete shock to him.

“He was a good boy. He was one of the good ones. Maybe he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. But I last saw him for the Car­ni­val this year in Feb­ru­ary, where I came to T&T and we limed to­geth­er.”

Mose­ley, who was very brief, said he was al­so now about the safe­ty of the oth­er mem­bers of his fam­i­ly in T&T.

“I am very scared and con­cerned about the safe­ty of his moth­er and the rest of them there but I am leav­ing every­thing in God’s hands. With the protests too and what is hap­pen­ing there, I am hon­est­ly scared to come to T&T but we will see how it goes. If I don’t make it in time I will see my son’s fu­ner­al on­line.”

Of­fi­cer Mose­ley was am­bushed and shot to the back of the head and chest while in his car along the Mor­vant Old Road at about 3.45 am on Sat­ur­day. Dur­ing their pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tions, in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived in­for­ma­tion which sug­gests a woman whom Mose­ley fre­quent­ly vis­it­ed in the area may hold key in­for­ma­tion. Po­lice said it was on­ly on Fri­day night that Mose­ley had grad­u­at­ed from train­ing at the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice’s Guard and Emer­gency Branch. He was pre­vi­ous­ly at­tached to the Spe­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit.