Family of slain shopkeeper plans to use elections to push for inquiry into cops

Bibi Sheniza Khan-Bhola

Saying the police failed to act on important leads to bring the suspected killers of shopkeeper Bibi Sheniza Khan-Bhola to justice, the woman’s family is now planning to use the upcoming elections campaign period to demand an inquiry into the handling of the investigation.

According to family members, although they provided police with telephone numbers and addresses for the suspects, eleven months on they are still at large. While some members of the woman’s family seem to believe that pursuing the police is a waste of time, others have convinced themselves that hope must not be lost.

Khan-Bhola, a 34-year-old mother of two, was found stabbed to death in her shop at Rock Creek, Cuyuni River, on