(Trinidad Express) – The bells of the Trinity Cathedral tolled the notes of the hymn Amazing Grace on Sunday as the first death anniversary of murdered senior counsel Dana Seetahal was observed with renewed calls for justice.
Dana’s sister, Susan Francois, was surrounded by scores of people who turned up outside of the Hall of Justice to not only remember a woman who served country, but to urge the nation to not forget her and to speak out against a criminal justice system that has failed to apprehend her assassins and those who conspired to have her killed.
Seetahal, a former State prosecutor and Independent Senator, was brutally murdered on May 4, 2014 as she made her way home to One Woodbrook Place.
Police reports had stated that upon reaching Hamilton-Holder Street, Woodbrook, a Nissan Wingroad drove ahead of Seetahal’s Volkswagen SUV and then pulled in front of her, blocking her access as another vehicle, described as a panel van, pulled alongside her and shots were fired directly at her from the occupants of that vehicle.
The bullets struck her in the head and about her body. Both vehicles thereafter fled the scene and to date no one has been held for the heinous crime that gripped national and international attention.
Gillian Wall, head of Powerful Ladies of Trinidad and Tobago (PLOTT), who organised the candle vigil yesterday together with security consultant Paul Daniel Nahhous noted that at Seetahal’s funeral the crowd stretched onto the roads but at her memorial service at the very church last Saturday the crowd barely filled half the church. On Sunday, just over 50 persons including former government minister Mary King and Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah turned up at the vigil.
“As a society we forget too quickly,” said Wall as she reminded the nation that Seetahal loved and served her country and her death must not be forgotten.
She said it should be of great concern to all that Seetahal’s murderers are still walking around freely.
Wall said that a call for justice for Seetahal was a call for justice for everyone in this country.
