Still in shock over his bru­tal mur­der, a rel­a­tive of Amar Rooplal said she was first alert­ed through so­cial me­dia that a body with Amar tat­tooed on the fin­gers had been found in Ste Madeleine.

The tat­too, as well as an ear­ring in the shape of an A, on the body, prompt­ed her vis­it to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion on Tues­day evening where her worst fears were con­firmed.

On Tues­day around 4.40 am se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers were on pa­trol along Cedar Hill Es­tate Road when they ob­served a body, which was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Rooplal, on the ground with blood around him.

Rooplal’s throat had been slit and there were stab wounds on his back.

The 34-year-old, who was a fa­ther of two, was a school bus dri­ver and al­so pro­vid­ed land­scap­ing ser­vices through Amar’s Aquat­e­ch, but the busi­ness was not reg­is­tered. About two months ago he moved out of his home in Toradale Gar­dens in Ste Madeleine af­ter he and his wife had a dis­agree­ment and he be­gan rent­ing an apart­ment at Roy Av­enue, Vista­bel­la.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, a rel­a­tive who did not wish to be iden­ti­fied said he sold a Fron­tier van last week­end and had rent­ed a Nis­san Note. Nei­ther the car, his wal­let, phone nor mon­ey have been found, lead­ing the rel­a­tive to be­lieve that Rooplal may have been robbed and then killed.

She said on Mon­day night Rooplal told his land­lord that he was go­ing to church. “He was a qui­et per­son, didn’t ar­gue with peo­ple. Didn’t have threats against him and didn’t owe any­one mon­ey.”

The rel­a­tives de­scribed him as a good per­son.

“This is very heart­break­ing. He didn’t de­serve this. He would be home all the time. He didn’t put him­self out there. These peo­ple have to be re­al heart­less,” the rel­a­tive said.

The rel­a­tive said she was alarmed by the crime sit­u­a­tion in the coun­try.

“It is a night­mare. You just want to leave this coun­try. You work­ing hard but peo­ple watch­ing you. We don’t know who it is and why this hap­pened. They could have tak­en what they want­ed but didn’t have to kill him.”

She is hop­ing that the po­lice work fever­ish­ly to bring Rooplal’s killers to jus­tice.

Homi­cide of­fi­cers Re­gion 3 are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.