The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) yesterday pleaded with the police to exhaust all avenues to ensure that killers of pensioner Norma Holder were arrested and brought to justice.
Holder, 74, was killed at her home at Eastern Main Road, Laventille, on Sunday shortly after she arrived home from attending church. According to an autopsy at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, Holder was stabbed in the neck. It is yet to be confirmed whether she was raped. Cotton swabs were taken for further forensic testing.
In a release issued yesterday, YMCA’s Elders in Action at the Senior Activity Centre, Jennifer Ramdial Rafer, described Holder as a dear sister, friend and colleague. It added: “We are devastated by this senseless and grotesque act that has resulted in the most obscene violation and loss of a friend. “As senior citizens ourselves, we plead with the respective authorities to exhaust all possible avenues to ensure Norma’s perpetrators are swiftly apprehended and brought to justice.
“Norma will never be a crime statistic or a news headline but a painful reminder of a beloved soul who fell victim to the worsening state of crime in our once beautiful country now morphed by a frenzy of wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; families without values; politics without principle; commerce without morality and governance without accountability.”