Nine months after his traumatic death, a mother has finally been able to prepare for her son’s funeral, but may never know how he died.
Christine Nedd, collected the charred remains of her 14-year-old son Darian Nedd from the Forensic Science Centre, yesterday. An the autopsy categorised his death as being undetermined.
The body was kept for nine months after his burnt dismembered corpse was found in the ruins of his home at Red Brick Trace, South Oropouche, as police awaited confirmation from deoxyribonucleic acid, (DNA) test to confirm his identity.
Nedd said while putting her son to rest would bring a certain amount of closure, the fact that the autopsy could not determine how he died was a bitter pill to swallow.
“I wanted to know how he died. His hands and feet were missing. I will never know if he died before his killer set fire to the house or if he was alive and left for the fire to consume him. That is a secret only he and his killer knows now.”
Initial reports stated that the body of the Form One student, of the Siparia East Secondary School, was dismembered when it was found amid the ruins of their wooden house on March 20.
In an interview after the body was released to a funeral home, in preparation for his interment next week, Nedd said: “I dreaded this happening. This is a real horror. All of the feelings I experienced on the day he died is coming back fresh, fresh. I could never get no justice, no satisfaction, because nothing could bring him back. But losing your son and not knowing how it happened is worse than anything I or any mother could ever experience.”
She said it has taken courage and her faith in God, to rebuild and live in the same area. Her son’s remains would be brought back to his home for a final service next week before being cremated. His ashes would be strewn on the burnt out spot of where he died.
“That is where the rest of his body is. I don’t want to separate him.”
On Tuesday, 25-year-old fisherman Roger Ragoonath re-appeared in the Siparia Magistrate’s court charged with Darian’s murder. The matter has been adjourned to January, next year.