A 14-year-old Corentyne lad is now missing after he left home just over a week ago with an older friend.
The family of Kevin Mangar, also known as ‘Tubby,’ is now pleading with the general public to be on the lookout for the teen, who was last seen wearing a brown shirt and blue jeans.
Mangar, of Lot 38 Clifton Settlement, Corentyne, was last seen leaving home on Saturday, July 11, around 11 pm.
His father, Maheshwar Mangar, 55, a mechanic, told this newspaper that he had already retired to bed when he heard his son talking to someone. “He friend jump the fence and come in and them two went on the step talking,” the father recalled.
According to the man, he called on his son but “them two run out the yard.”
Maheshwar said after his son did not return on Sunday morning, he ventured over to the home of the 17-year-old friend who had fled with his son on the previous night. “I see him and I ask him where the lil boy and he say he na know,” the man related.
The father then began searching for his son in nearby villages, “I see back the friend Sunday afternoon and he tell me that he see the boy in Rose Hall so I tell he let we go collect him (son) but he na ready he a tell me let me wait.”
The worried father ventured to Rose Hall himself and continued looking for his son but after he failed to locate the lad he returned home. However, on Monday morning he made a missing person’s report at the Whim Police Station.
According to the father, his son’s friend was held for questioning and then subse-quently released. “Every time me ask the police them a say them a investigate. Me ain’t know where else to turn to,” the man said.
Maheshwar said he and his son do not have any issue but he mentioned that he noticed his son began smoking cigarettes recently. “I does travel and go work in Bath and sometime Ogle so after he deh home from school me start take he with me some time,” the man noted.
The father is calling on the police to intensify their investigation in an effort to locate his son, “I don’t know what happen with him. I just want know where he deh,” the man said.
Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of Kevin Mangar can make contact with Maheshwar on telephone number 613-9190.
