April 9 will mark 15 years since the shocking, unsolved murder of Monica Reece and the dumping of her body on Main Street. The lengthy period has not diminished the public’s interest in this haunting case which has long grown cold despite the lofty promises by the police that the case would be solved.
Aside from the fact that her family has gotten no justice and lives with the gnawing pain of this hideous killing, the murder was also an important marker for PPP/C governments and one which history will judge it rather harshly by.
Just months after the euphoria of the return to democracy and the triumph at the 1992 polls, the PPP/C government was faced with a body-dumping murder which set tongues wagging and appeared to involve well-known members of society. What followed was a combination of police bungling and incapacity at many levels in the law enforcement firmament.
