Shoma, 13 and Hama, 16 years, were saddened to hear their sister was responsible for the poisoned curry
Days after a 15-year-old girl laced her relatives’ meal of hassar curry with poison, police investigators found a diary detailing her intentions, the teen’s brother told Guyana Times International in an interview last week.
The teen of Handsome Tree, Mahaicony, West Coast Berbice was charged with attempted murder for poisoning her five family members with monocrotophos, a commonly used farming insecticide.
Her brother, Eshwardat, told this publication that when police searched the home they found the teen’s diary, which disclosed in detail her intention of killing her family members. The girl not only poisoned the hassar curry her family consumed on February 9, but she did go on to lace various grains and lentils with poison the family kept in their home.
Eshwardat also told GTI that his sister went so far as to lace medicine bottles with the poison. “I threw everything out when I got home.” The brother noted that he spent three days cleaning the house as there was vomit everywhere after his father, brother, mother and two sisters were sick after ingesting the poison.
The brother said that on January 31, several days before the incident, his father had fallen ill due to poison. “He get sick because of same poison; we had to take him to Mahaica Hospital.” The teen’s brother noted that he was set to leave for Venezuela on the weekend the family fell ill. He also told this publication that his sister had known he was leaving and wanted to kill the remainder of her family to have the home for herself. “She wrote it in a book the police found,” the boy said.
Asked what would have influenced his sister to commit such an act, the brother said: “She changed since she started secondary school. I don’t know what happened to her that would make her like this.” He noted his sister had become very rebellious and her parents could not control her.
Asked about their home life, the young man stated that his other three siblings were well behaved for the most part. He said his brother was shy and his other sisters were typical young women, always wanting to talk on the phone. He said the 15-year-old was very much like that up until a year ago.
“The neighbours began calling saying they seeing her changing out of her school clothes and meeting up with different boys,” he said.
“She would change in front of meh home in the bushes; when she would come out, she would be dressed up,” noted one neighbour who wished to remain anonymous. The neighbour went on to say that she had spoken to the child’s parents and had told them, “they need to marry her, so she could stop this kind of thing”, but the teen’s parents had refused, insisting that she needs to continue with school.
As for Eshwardat, he said that he feels nothing for his sister right now, “I told my mother if she come home and does this again and everyone dead, is it worth she coming home?” The teen is currently being held at the Juvenile Detention Facility. Her brother stated that the police had informed him that the case now depends on his parents and if they choose to believe the evidence brought before the courts as to their daughter’s criminal intentions. “I don’t want she home… they should let she go with whichever boy she deh with,” he said.
Attempts to make contact with the teen’s boyfriend were unsuccessful.
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